Antoine Magnant was appointed Wednesday as head of Tracfin, the financial intelligence unit attached to the Ministry of the Economy. A graduate of the National School of Administration (ENA), he “specialized in taxation, accounting, the fight against fraud and the organization and improvement of the operational and human performance,” specifies a press release from Bercy.
Mr. Magnant will replace from April 1 Alban Genais, who has been acting in the French service responsible for money laundering, terrorist financing and tax fraud.