The former LR deputy and former first deputy mayor of Marseille Dominique Tian was definitively condemned for "
false declaration of assets
" and "
laundering of tax fraud
", after the rejection on Wednesday of his appeal in cassation.
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In October 2019, the Paris Court of Appeal sentenced him to 18 months suspended imprisonment, five years of ineligibility and a 900,000 euro fine, increasing the sentences handed down at first instance.
Dominique Tian, now aged 60, who was then the first deputy of Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR), had lodged an appeal in cassation, considering that “
this decision of the Paris Court of Appeal is neither fair, nor reasonable!
Dominique Tian's lawyer was not reachable on Wednesday evening.
The former deputy was tried for having "
omitted
" in his declaration of assets of 2012 assets held in Switzerland, and for "
laundering tax fraud
".
The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP), created in the wake of the Cahuzac affair, seized the prosecution in April 2015. When he was a deputy, Dominique Tian was engaged in the hunt for social fraud and had in particular castigated in a parliamentary report the fraudsters to Assedic and the bogus unemployed.
Before this report from the HATVP, the elected official had contacted the transactional unit of Bercy to regularize his tax situation, according to the Cazeneuve circular of 2013 on holders of undeclared assets abroad.
He then paid 664,000 euros, including an increase of 129,000 euros, as well as a 70,000 euros fine.
In return, he had not been prosecuted for tax evasion.
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This regularization brought to light the existence of accounts in three Swiss banks, "
Lombard Odier, Pictet and UBS
" in which nearly two million euros had been stored for years.
On this amount hidden from the tax authorities, Dominique Tian and his two brothers had not paid inheritance tax.
They had on the other hand perceived the profits made on this money placed by their father from 1976. Dominique Tian had assured to have discovered the existence of the accounts on the death of his father, a Marseille business manager.