The boss of the national financial parquet tells the scenes of the search at Google – Yahoo News

a code name” operation Tulip “and a treaty folder ” offline “ to ensure ” absolute confidentiality “. Eliane Houlette, head of the national financial parquet (PNF), detailed, Sunday 29 May, the scenes of the tax fraud investigation Google to France

on 24 May 2016, magistrates assisted PNF police from the central Office of fight against corruption and financial and tax offenses (Oclciff) and computer experts have conducted searches at the headquarters of Google France.

in total, nearly a hundred people were able to collect a mass ” considerable “ data iT – “terabytes” – estimated the financial national prosecutor at the show “Le Grand Rendez-vous” Europe 1 – the World -. i-TV

Their exploitation will take ” several months, I hope it will not be many years, “ added Eliane Houlette, regretting that investigators do not have the ” extremely powerful software “ that would allow them to go ” many faster “

class=" text-canvas Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) - sm Mt (0.8em) - sm canvas-atom " .="" data-type=" text " data-reactid=" ob1ef648z4 $ 0.0.0.1.2.0.2.0.0 $ Col1-0-ContentCanvas-Proxy-$ Col1-0 ContentCanvas.0.4.0:.... $ 5 "> The searches were conducted in As part of a preliminary investigation opened June 16, 2015 following a complaint from the tax authorities. The survey “ aims to verify whether the company Google Ireland Ltd has a permanent establishment in France .” When a subsidiary of an Irish company is recognized as a “permanent establishment” in France, it is imposed by a regime similar to that of French companies. But Google, as almost all of the American giants whose headquarters is located in Ireland, leverages years of a specific provision of the tax treaty between Ireland and France.

” It was the biggest operation of PNF … “, Google is “even the biggest company in terms of capitalization in the world” . “A little David against Goliath …” , summed Eliane Houlette. The complaint was “treated in complete confidentiality, taking into account (…) Read more about lemonde.fr

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