A report to the prosecutor emphasized in May 2008, the tax issues of the Kerviel affair, according to information Friday Mediapart, France Inter and 20 Minutes, unique to revive the debate on a fiscal boost of more than 2 billion euro enjoyed by Société Générale.
According to these three media, reads the “report”, signed a “specialized assistant” named Cédric Bourgeois and addressed to the prosecutor Jean-Michel Adelbert, that “Société Générale is particularly interested in identifying the existence of a complex fraud, making ineffective internal control systems.”
This document was “promptly buried” and crushed, before be reconstituted by journalists.
According to the report cited by the three media, it was in the interest of the bank to present fraudulent transactions from his former trader Jérôme Kerviel as sophisticated and undetectable . Why? Because it allowed him to claim a tax aid system for victims of fraud companies, against which they were powerless.
In fact, Société Générale has received a tax rebate some 2.2 billion euros.
This controversial boost could be questioned on September 23 if the court of appeal of Versailles, on the civil side of the case, point failures such from the bank that it could no longer dismiss her former trader on full responsibility for his loss of 4.9 billion euros.
in criminal cases, the former trader was finally convicted.
the Paris prosecutor’s office did not comment any more than the finance minister Michel Sapin, interviewed Friday.
in a statement, the bank s ‘protests against the “media-judicial harassment practices orchestrated by supporters of the media because of Jerome Kerviel.”
it “reiterates that the tax treatment of the loss caused by the actions of Mr Kerviel was operated transparently and according to the law. “
” This document in May 2008 seriously putting into question the Societe Generale and 2.2 billion euros of public money it wrongly received was deliberately concealed “responded to his part Mr. David Koubbi, the lawyer of Jerome Kerviel.
” How much evidence of these obnoxious practices he will still make for Holland and Urvoas seize maneuvers of the bank with the help of some public prosecutors in Paris? “he asked.
another procedure, administrative, follows its course on the same subject.
Julien Bayou, elected EELV, asked the Ministry of Finance published the results of an internally conducted survey in 2012 on the tax rebate. After several refusals, he will take the matter to an administrative court of appeal.
“This is Mr Sapin remove the doubts hanging over the decisions of the tax administration,” said AFP M. Bayou, for which “all the ministers of Finance and Budget since 2008 are tainted.”
“beyond the sums to be recovered, it will investigate on suspicion of extortion” he said, speaking of a “tax raid”.
the bribery offense is made for “a person holding public authority (…) grant under any form and for any reason whatsoever exemption or franchise fees, levies, taxes or public fees “by violating the law. It is punishable by five years imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 euros.
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