The prospect of Jerome Cahuzac defendants sit on a bench in 2015 is accurate, the financial prosecutor claiming that the National Socialist Budget former minister to be tried for tax evasion including in the case of the hidden account . The fall of the man who had posed as the champion of the fight against tax evasion, after the victory of François Hollande, had put a lot of promises to “exemplary Republic” made by the Socialist candidate. She had put an end to the political career of Jerome Cahuzac, expelled from the Socialist Party and who had to resign his post.
The case also led to the creation of national financial prosecutor (PNF) . Less than a year after its creation, it requested the referral correctional Jérôme Cahuzac tax evasion and money laundering that crime, announced Monday to AFP judicial sources and close the file. A similar measure is claimed for his wife, Patricia Cahuzac, separated from it. FNP wants the former minister was also judged to have failed “substantial share of its assets” in his statement to the Commission for the financial transparency of political life when he joined the government in spring 2012, according to the source judiciary.
The decision is now up to financial magistrates. If they followed prosecutors, correctional Cahuzac will be accompanied by the Geneva financial institution Reyl and Co., his boss François Reyl and a Swiss lawyer suspected of playing a role in the establishment of the Singapore account Jerome Cahuzac . The PNF has instead requested a dismissal for the founder of Reyl Dominique Reyl, and the asset manager of the former minister, Herve Dreyfus, who have both been indicted.
“An unspeakable fault”
Jerome Cahuzac has long denied “en bloc and in detail” to hold the hidden account, whose existence was revealed by Mediapart . When the Paris prosecutor had opened an investigation March 19, 2013, he resigned but continued to maintain his innocence. It was only two weeks later, faced with almost certain authentication of his voice on a recording compromising, he recognized before the judges have held an account hidden abroad. “Devastated by remorse,” he had asked forgiveness for “unspeakable mistake” and said he lied, including the highest state authorities. He admitted having placed some 685,000 euros in an account opened in Switzerland in 1992 and then moved to the fall of 2009 in Singapore. A sum he had repatriated.
According to his lawyer, they are not reported were mainly the result of his surgery practice and incidentally his consulting work for the pharmaceutical industry. If the floor was to be followed, the trial will not address the source of these funds, a dismissal was required on this point, for lack of sufficient evidence. Jerome Cahuzac in 1993 established a consulting company Cahuzac Council, having been technical advisor of the drug to the Department of Health 1988 to 1991. During the investigation, Patricia Cahuzac for his part, admitted the existence of a bank account on the Isle of Man, with amounts for real estate investments in the UK and a Swiss bank account, separate from that opened in 1992 by her husband.
Specialist of hair transplant, Patricia Cahuzac recovered the clinic hair implants that her husband had founded. Several former members or advisors of the socialist government have had legal or fiscal woes. The director Yamina Benguigui will be judged for asset declarations incomplete and interest between 2012 and 2014. Thomas Thévenoud and Kader Arif resigned from the government, while Faouzi Lamdaoui and Aquilino Morelle had to leave office advisors at the Elysee.
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