UP MY EYE?

 

A resounding lie and a hidden account abroad: three years after having shaken the young five year Hollande, former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac meets today afternoon to his judges.

The former champion of fiscal orthodoxy, 63, arrived in Paris court where he is to appear, until February 18, tax evasion and money laundering, as well as for "minus" in his declaration of assets entering government in 2012.

Forced to resign in March 2013, he gave up all his mandates, left politics and now faces a sentence of up to seven years in prison and two million euro fine. Beside him, his wife - whom he is separated - Patricia Menard and their advisors: François Reyl banker and lawyer Philippe Houman. The very discreet bank Reyl Geneva also appears as a moral person.

Political earthquake, the first of a five-year term that was meant to "normality", the Cahuzac affair led to the creation of a national financial parquet and the adoption of a law on transparency in public life.

Sophisticated and family-Fraud.

The case began in December 2012, when the Media part news website revealed that Jerome Cahuzac possessed a hidden account, first in Switzerland and Singapore, as confirmed judicial inquiry in January 2013.

The former president of the Finance Committee of the Assembly, which then appears as the white knight of the fight against tax evasion, first denies everything. "Eye to Eye" media, MPs, the president. But evidence is mounting and he finally confesses.

And instruction then dismantles the mechanisms of tax evasion described as "stubborn," "sophisticated" and "family."

The origin of the company, Jérôme Cahuzac, training surgeon, and his wife, dermatologist, who held a thriving clinic specializes in hair implants.

The story of the maneuvers involved, as done by investigators, novel oscillates between station and international financial crime manual. We had to put the money that flowed to the clinic but also consulting activities of Jérôme Cahuzac from pharmaceutical companies.

Jerome Cahuzac is recounted how, under the code name "Birdie" is deliver 10,000 euros in cash in the street in Paris.

Described the ever winding roads of tax evasion. A first account opened by a "friend" in 1992 at UBS and one on behalf of Cahuzac himself the following year. In 1998, all assets are transferred at Reyl.

When the sacrosanct Swiss banking secrecy begins to crack in 2009, some 600,000 euros What holds Jérôme Cahuzac take the road of Singapore, making a detour through a company registered in the Seychelles and introduced by an intermediary in Dubai .

Spouses Cahuzac also set open an account at the Al Bank of Scotland on the Isle of Man in 1997 to deposit checks from their English patients. Patricia Cahuzac in 2007 opened his own account in Switzerland on blurred background with her husband.

Even the accounts of the parent of the former minister, who was not itself at issue, are used to "launder" between 2003 and 2010, some 200,000 euros of checks made by the clinic's clients.

It was a "family run", say investigators Patricia Cahuzac. The money was used to pay for lavish holidays or apartments for children in London. Ha, ha, ha…

She has since sold the apartments and has performed a recovery of more than two million. The former minister has repatriated its assets.

 

We waiting for the judicial sentence!