Five banks were raided at the same time, yesterday morning in Paris, this is a first. Among these five banks, there is one that we know well at home, it is BNP Paribas. The four other banks are Société Générale, Natixis, HSBC which is a British bank and Exane which is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.
All these banks are suspected of aggravated money laundering and aggravated tax evasion. BNP and its subsidiary are also suspected of aggravated tax evasion. It is the PNF, the French national financial prosecutor’s office which is leading the investigation and which speaks of yesterday as the biggest operation in the history of the PNF, with 16 mobility magistrates out of the 19 of the PNF, 160 investigators out of the 250 in positions. In short, it’s heavy. The investigation began in 2021, following the publication in 2018 of the “CumEx Files”, an investigation by several international media.
These searches are part of the “cum cum” case. What is that ?
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