Recommended by the law firm of the former magistrate Eva Joly, the inter-union CFE-CGC/SUD and the CSE of the Ge de Belfort site filed a complaint on Monday, May 30, for “whitening of tax fraud, abuse Confidence, false and use of false and aggravated concealment in organized strip “.
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The paradox is as striking as they are worrying: in Belfort, the Turbines Gaz of General Electric (GE) is in full swing, with ordinary orders to crack, but the site, considered by the American conglomerate of Energy as a cost center that must be reduced at all costs, and no more profits, has been in deficit since 2015.
Only, “this deficit is artificial, with a looting in good standing of the resources of the Belforte entity and with benefits recorded in Switzerland, in the canton of Argovie, where taxation is gentle for companies”, denounces the ‘CFE-CGC/South inter-union. “It is used to reduce investment budgets dedicated to industrial tool, moderate salary policy, justify social plans and relocations.”
“We are at war”
After several expertise and two alert rights since 2018, which had no effect on GE tax policy, the inter -union filed a complaint against X on Monday May 30 (with the CSE), with the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) , for “money laundering of tax fraud, breach of confidence, false and use of false and concealment aggravated in an organized gang”, through his lawyer, M e Eva Joly, former investigating judge At the financial center of the Paris courthouse and spearhead of the fight against corruption in the 1990s. This procedure engages the responsibility of the company as that of its leaders.
“Tax evasion should no longer be a fatality,” said Philippe Petitcolin (CFE-CGC) and Alexis SESMAT (South) during a press conference, Tuesday, May 31 in Belfort, in the presence of Me Joly and representatives of NGOs Oxfam and Attac. “The tools and weapons to identify and fight it exist, starting with the rules of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which requires that the tax must be paid where the added value is created and No where it is the weakest. “They support:” We are at war. “
At the end of these investigations, Eva Joly and her teams uncovered “an artificial reduction of 555 million euros, concerning three contracts, during the period 2016-2019”. The first, which relates to the brand fee, provides that General Electric Energy Products France (GE EPF) pays 1 % of its turnover to an American subsidiary, based in Delaware. “Our experts have shown that it actually paid double, or 13 million euros.” Worse, this fee should have been 0.3 %, in accordance with the OECD rules. In the end, “the too much paid by Ge Belfort d’entee at 32.7 million euros”.
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