“Pandora Papers”: in Seychelles, two French names that intrigue

A woman close to the Marseille midfielder and the son of a sulphurous arming intermediary have opened offshore companies in the archipelago.

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Would the Seychelles archipelary have sheltered money from the Marseille environment? This is one of the questions that arise on reading the name of a certain Marilyn Benedetto in the “Pandora Papers”. This native of Marseille, 48 years old, is the daughter of Marcel Benedetto, an old face figure, murdered in 2010. According to a confidential document consulted by Le Monde, it created on November 14, 2017, a Seychelloise offshore company Southern accents, Ricard Management Ltd, through a Mauritian cabinet.

Ten days earlier, Gérald Campanella, a man presented by the police as one of the sponsors of Marseille, was arrested by the French police, after more than four years of caval. During his escape, Marilyn Benedetto hosted her in her big house dominant bandol. “A brother for her”, of whom she knew “belonging to banditry,” she said at the hearing. The Tribunal felt that it “was totally in the criminal association” and sentenced it to three years in prison, including one with stay and 15,000 euros fine.

The documents do not specify that purpose m me Benedetto has decided to open this company. But after having first affirmed to the world that she ignored all of the existence of this structure, M me Benedetto finally indicated that Ricard Management Ltd had been created at the request of a partner Of which she did not want to reveal the name, “in order to finance machines for a building company based on Mauritius”. This offshore structure, backed by a bank account, was, according to it, intended to pay the payment of the redemption of the units of a company belonging to this partner. Was it to conceal assets to the French tax administration? “Not at all, my partner lives in Mauritius! And, even though he would have liked, I have never paid money on this account. I have nothing to reproach me. I was in procedure And I could not pay. “

Alexandre Djouhri’s son

Another French, in the familiar name, chose Seychelles to register its company, baptized “A.D. Holding Group Ltd”. “A.D.” like Alexandre Djouhri. It is not the intermediary in arming, indicted in the case of the alleged Libyan funding of the Nicolas Sarkozy campaign, especially for corruption and misappropriation of possible public funds. But from his son, who bears the same first name, and is called, for convenience, by his second name: Germain.

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