Today, Monday, February 8 13:30, 32th chamber of the Paris court, Jérôme Cahuzac will be forced to watch the judges in the eye. Of course, we already know that his lawyer Jean Veil will file at the opening of the hearing two priority issues of constitutionality that are likely to refer to trial later. Of course the former budget minister has already confessed his secret account in Switzerland.
But what do we really know of the man? From that, dermatologist, began a climb to the heights of power: Office of the Minister of Health in 1988, MP 1997, mayor in 2001, Budget Minister in 2012 … before the fall, violent and brutal. Why have you for so long, why he lied with such aplomb and unconsciousness?
Decision Wednesday
from all this, only a hearing conducted gently but firmly by the chair of the hearing Peimane Ghaleh Marzban might be possible to understand the springs of this hybriss, the fatal arrogance hated Greek, which precipitated the fall the ambitious too hasty. But it will probably take. After the pleadings of lawyers who will defend the national priority issues of constitutionality, the court will say Wednesday, February 10 whether it intends to or not to continue the hearing.
So it will even now be content with crude and rough facts: December 4, 2012, Mediapart reveals a Swiss account Jerome Cahuzac. The blast is huge, the budget minister made himself the champion of the fight against tax fraud. Him swear adamant that it is not. “I do not have (…) I have never had a foreign account, now or before. So I belie the accusations “, it responds to the National Assembly on December 5, both hands gripping the microphone before him. Accuser in turn, he claims his critics of “evidence”.
Suspicion specify
Never mind. A few days later, Mediapart published the extract of a sound recording in which we can hear the voice of a man presented as Jerome Cahuzac, expressing his embarrassment about an account held at UBS.
week after week, but suspicions specify the version of Jerome Cahuzac does not vary, almost word for word, and he repeated every time he is asked the question he n . has not and never had a hidden account or UBS or elsewhere
But from January 2013, rush events: the Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation, and the judges decide to open a judicial inquiry and send to Switzerland a request for investigations at UBS Geneva and the bank Reyl.
March 22, Paris receives the answer: “Mr Cahuzac had a proxy on an account in the name of a lawyer, Péninque and was holder another account, a power of attorney has been issued to his wife. “ UBS states that these accounts have been closed for over ten years. Cornered, the budget minister resigned and wrote to the investigating judges: “You have been appointed to hear a case concerning me. Contrary to statements that I was driven to do while I was a member of the government, I hold an account abroad and would provide any explanations about it. “
code Name Birdie
Jerome Cahuzac exhausted falsehood, let go in a blast at his first hearing by the judges of statement: “the existence of this account was for me a ball” , but it is known if the “ball” has become insupportable because it was discovered … Jerome Cahuzac is set under investigation for tax fraud and tax evasion laundering. It remains 600,000 euros on the account.
For investigators he admitted having supplied the account of the bank, with income from his surgical activities, but also with compensation paid for his advisory role in companies with a pharmaceutical company. He then transferred its assets to the bank Reyl, and finally to Singapore in 2009, for reasons of discretion. So discreet that it appeared to the bank under the code name Birdie.
But the precautions are not enough. The former minister is on trial for tax evasion, money laundering, and for failing to declare his assets abroad in his statement of assets when he joined the government in May 2012. He faces up to seven years in prison and 1 million euro fine and the loss of civil rights, civil and family
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