Aimed by an investigation since February 2024, the actor is suspected of having fictitiously domiciled in Belgium.
Gérard Depardieu continues to be in the sights of justice. Médiapart revealed on Monday, February 24, that the 76 -year -old actor is also under the influence of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering. The actor is suspected of having fictitiously domiciled in Belgium from 2013.
This survey is the consequence of “several denunciations from the tax administration,” said a judicial source at the Agency France Presse (AFP). The objective: to determine if “his domiciliation was a false domiciliation” and “what amount of tax he could have subtracted from France since 2013”.
Gérard Depardieu had indeed announced that he was now domiciled in Belgium for tax reasons in December 2012, in order to oppose the taxation of the big fortunes announced by François Hollande, then President of the Republic. He then settled in Néchin, a Belgian town near the French border.
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office has opened this survey for aggravated tax fraud and money laundering since February 2024. It was entrusted to the National Brigade for the Repression of Fiscal Delinquency of the Central Office to Combat Corruption and Financial and Tax Infractions. In this context, the judicial police organized searches and hearings in February 2025, in Maine-et-Loire, in Belgium but also in Paris. According to a source close to the file, which confided in AFP, Gérard Depardieu has not yet been heard at this stage of the investigation.
This is a new confrontation between Gérard Depardieu and justice. The 76 -year -old actor is to be tried on March 24 and 25 for sexual assault, which would have occurred during the filming of the film Green shutters by Jean Becker in 2021. The prosecution also ordered that he was tried to rape on the actress Charlotte Arnould, who has accused him since 2018. But the investigating judge in charge of the file has not yet spoken on the held or not of a trial as part of this case. Gérard Depardieu has always denied the accusations he was the subject of.