Arié Goueta was imprisoned on Friday May 6 in Draguignan (Var). This lawyer has already been sentenced as part of the VAT fraud case on carbon quotas.
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A Marseille lawyer was incarcerated on Friday, May 6, at the Draguignan detention center (Var), immediately after its indictment in organized gang whitening, criminal association and irregular stay assistance. While investigating a “bleaching network organized internationally and involving Turkey, Algeria and Switzerland at least”, the Marseille investigating judge Nathalie Roche has uncovered interventions by M E arié Goueta with protagonists of the file, during obscure operations of constitution of SCI and real estate purchase in Marseille. “I went to Goueta, he told me to buy a building to make French resident papers,” said an Algerian merchant, appointed by the smugglers of the laundering network during his February, as “one of the directors”.
The case had started on March 10, 2021 with a common customs control over the A8 motorway at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var). In the vehicle of Mohamed F., an Italian of Syrian origin living in Germany, the customs officers discovered 109,050 euros in cash in the glove box and under the rear seat, a large part of the banknotes with traces of narcotics.
A lawyer who was still pleading
Mohamed F. admitted to having recovered money from a certain Adel, in the northern districts of Marseille. He had to go to Milan to take a flight to Istanbul. He declared a remuneration of 2,000 to 3,000 euros for this “transfer of funds”. The investigators established that he had made seven trips to Turkey since January, having been able to convey hundreds of thousands of euros. The analysis of the phone of this passer was going to lead to the arrest and the indictment of eleven people, including the customer of M e ariéa.
This is not the first time that M e goueta has been imprisoned. It had been provisionally from December 17, 2015 to February 8, 2016 as part of the Marseille component of the sprawling case of VAT fraud on carbon quotas. For his participation in this scam on 385 million euros in elected VAT rights, he was sentenced, in March 2020, to five years in prison, including three years suspended, to a fine 500,000 euros and a final ban on exercise. This conviction is not performed due to an appeal still awaiting examination by the Court of Cassation.
The Paris Court of Appeal which condemned him had considered that the Marseille lawyer was an important cog in the system, having intervened at all his stages by the constitution of fictitious companies committing the scam to that allowing Fund whitening. Despite this condemnation, m e arié Goueta pleaded very regularly before the different jurisdictions.
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