The group headquarters in La Défense was raided by investigators of the Central fight against financial and tax crimes (OCLCIFF), said a judicial source., Confirming a report in ” Journal du Dimanche “. “Documents, including IT systems, were seized,” she said.
The raid took place as part of the preliminary investigation by the national financial Parquet for “bleaching aggravated tax evasion” on April 4, the day after the first revelations about the case of tax evasion worldwide.
According to “Le Monde”, Societe Generale is the fourth largest bank behind HSBC, UBS, Credit Suisse to have had the most use Mossack Fonseca: she would have created 979 offshore companies, via the firm Panamanian lawyers, on behalf of clients. The French group ensures that only a few dozen of them are still active and they are managed in a “completely transparent”.
Towards a new hearing Frédéric Oudéa?
in 2012, before the Senate inquiry on capital flight, its CEO, Frédéric Oudéa, had testified that the bank had closed settlements in the countries on the gray list of tax havens and in uncooperative states judged as Panama.
Senator LR Philippe Dominati, former chairman of the committee investigation, hoped on Thursday that Frédéric Oudéa be interviewed again. As the regulator of the French banks, he asked them “additional” information about their activities in tax havens.
Since the publication of “Panama Papers,” Societe Generale is the target of much criticism. His ex-trader Jerome Kerviel, whom she confronts the judicial field for several years, was accused of “habitual offender offenses,” while the leader of the Left Party Mélenchon said that its leaders were of “liars” who were “being punished”.
the bank announced that it would pursue defamation against the two men and against Kerviel’s lawyer, Maître David Koubbi
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