The Professional French present on the HSBC list are of great diversity. But diversity with many zeros on the bank account. Worker Point, artisan or surface technician. Rather entrepreneurs, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, some celebrities, heirs and sometimes defendants by the French courts.
From the showbiz business community through the world of art and sport, the Swiss account reveals shared financial strategy the most profitable professions. Whether reported – it is very rare – or not when opened, many of these accounts have since been regularized with the French tax authorities
€ 300 million was recovered. by the French government in four years of work on the list. As was the case in February 2014, in the previous article revealing account holders names HSBC Geneva, Le Monde has joined all the personalities mentioned in the course of its investigations, or attempted to how, to enable them to respond and deliver their explanations. Only a minority has never responded.
Dugarry, Elmaleh, Lavil …
Gad Elmaleh is probably the best known name among the French customers bank. While he appeared in recent months in an advertisement where he imagined his ideal bank, the comedian had between 2006 and 2007 in Geneva an account on which are deposited close to 80,000 euros maximum. Reportedly, Mr. Elmaleh, who never responded to requests from the World , would have rectified the situation with the French tax authorities.
Lisa Azuelos, director of the film LOL is also included in the list of clients. It ensures, through the voice of his press secretary, as “all is now set” without giving further details. The artist Christian Boltanski, which did not respond to requests from the World has also made an adjustment, according to our information. He had a numbered account in the Swiss bank.
The presence of certain individuals among the customers is explained by inherited an account. This is the case, for example, Stella, the wife of scientist and writer Joël de Rosnay, who had an account with the result of inheritance, says the board of the couple. Their situation has since been regularized.
The singer Philippe Lavil was in the same situation. “This date long time , he said. I’ve never created a foreign account. There was no desire on my part to escape tax, I have also never had the means. “ He had inherited assets abroad and has been contacted by the IRS there a few years. His situation is now regularized.
One can also find the name of Christophe Dugarry. World champion football in 1998, converted into a sports consultant, opened in 2005 an account with an offshore company – Faroe Capital, HSBC opened a subsidiary in the British Virgin Islands – pledged over 2 million euros according to the bank’s data. It declined to answer questions from the World .
Tax havens are among the few places where we find side by side the names of footballers and politicians. So Aymeri de Montesquiou, Senator (UDI) of the Gers, is associated in the files of the bank to a numbered account, opened in 1990 and closed in 1994, itself linked to a shell company based in Panama and named Susumi Finance Corporation. However, Mr. de Montesquiou denied: “I have no account abroad” , he said
The prism. scandals wheeler
Sometimes assets are invested in Switzerland to start business. Peter Lindbergh, fashion photographer, filed hundreds of thousands of dollars into an account in Geneva. His agent says it’s “as part of a development project of photographic activities” . It specifies that the Geneva office was never launched. And that the situation has since been rectified without the photographer having to pay a fine.
The business leaders and entrepreneurs, large, medium and small, are also present in numbers HSBC in the list. Jacques Dessange the hairdresser – whose real first name Hubert – is one of them. In 2012, so early in the procedure checks incurred by the tax authorities, the French businessman has rectified the situation. “Mr. Dessange started right with the IRS in 2012. It cost him dearly” , confirmed to World any of his advice. The owner of hairdressers had concealed 1.6 million in Switzerland, based on surveys from 2006-2007, behind the screen of an account number and a foundation in Panama Hacienda, created in 2005.
We should also mention the Mentzelopoulos family, owners, among others, the prestigious winery Château Margaux. On the death of Armande Mentzelopoulos Montaner, who reigned long on the field, his heirs were caught by hidden assets in Switzerland and offshore centers, including the Cayman Islands. A regularization procedure of these assets has been engaged with the tax authorities
Ouaki family. – Owner of Tati until 2004 – also included in the listings. Fabien Ouaki, which sold the family business in 2004, inherited from his father a hidden account in Switzerland, together with “an artificial society in Panama” . This account was established in 1950 by Jules Ouaki, the founder of the brand clothing at low prices, in the bank of the former billionaire financier Edmond Safra, then bought by HSBC. The “son Tati” acknowledged fraud and rectified the situation.
HSBC list can also be read through the prism wheeler scandals that marked the late 1990s and early 2000s. This is the case of the Elf affair and Angolagate where multiple players on the list. The businessman André Guelfi said “Dede sardines” André Tarallo, the former head of Elf Gabon. Implicitly, then appear the powerful networks, specifically those of Charles Pasqua. The former interior minister is not there, but it is the case of one of his strong men. Jean-Charles Marchiani, convicted in the case Angolagate, as shown in the list.
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