This survey occurs after the NGO Anticorruption Transparency International (TIF) filed a complaint at the end of May in Paris. It was entrusted to the Central Office for the Repression of Great Financial Delinquency.
Le Monde with AFP
The national financial prosecutor’s office opened, the 1 e e er
é> July, an investigation targeting property acquired in France by Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin, said a source said on Monday 25 July Close to the file, confirming Information from Parisian.
This survey was entrusted to the Central Office for the Repression of Great Financial Delinquency (OCRGDF). It occurs after the NGO Anticorruption Transparency International (TIF) filed a complaint, at the end of May, in Paris for in particular “money laundering” targeting possible ill -acquired property in France by “businessmen and senior officials by Vladimir Putin “.
The complaint against X of the NGO aims, in addition to whitening, the non-adjustment of resources, tif thus explaining “denouncing the system of capture of the Russian State and the national wealth by” of the relatives of Mr. Cheese fries. According to the NGO, which does not give the names of the people targeted to “avoid reprisals”, the system elaborated “extends its ramifications to France, in the real estate sector in particular, due to a lack of vigilance intermediaries “.
hope of” large seizure measures “
“The ambition of sanctions measures against Russia and the first freezing announcements come up against the difficulties of identifying the heritage of sanctioned persons. In France, as elsewhere, the hunt for the assets of oligarchs and relatives of the regime Russian tramples “, had explained, in a press release, tif, emphasizing” intermediaries, nominees, ecrans or trusts in tax or judicial havens “.
Thanks to various sources, “we were able to draw up an inventory of real estate heritage in France of several oligarchs and close to the Russian regime, identify the properties of properties set up for this purpose and bring together a beam of indices on the illicit origin of resources that allowed the acquisition of this heritage, “said Patrick Lefas, president of Tif.
“The judicial chapter of the” BMA “[ill -acquired goods] of the Russian oligarchs will open (…). Gel measures [of assets] intervened” following the war in Ukraine “will be in Some cases an acceleration factor of the survey and will allow large seizure measures and in the event of criminal conviction, confiscations “, had argued M e William Bourdon, lawyer of tif.
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the international community has drawn up a list of names of Russian oligarchs, whose assets have been frozen. In France, several properties (villas, domains, apartments) were identified, on the Côte d’Azur, in the Rhône-Alpes region, in Paris but also in the southwest.