The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) announces that it has opened a preliminary investigation, on Thursday March 31, 2022, into the charge of aggravated money laundering of tax evasion, after having taken note of "the Senate report dated March 16, 2022 drawn up by the commission of inquiry on the growing influence of private consultancies on public policy and have conducted Financial Forensic Inquiry (SEJF) audits,” according to a statement.
This investigation was entrusted to the Department of Judicial Financial Investigations (SEJF).
The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, revealed on March 17, within the framework of a commission of inquiry initiated by the small group CRCE with a communist majority, that the contracts concluded by the State with the consulting firms like McKinsey had "more than doubled" between 2018 and 2021, reaching a record amount of more than one billion euros in 2021.
The senators also took legal action for "suspicion of false testimony" against a McKinsey executive who had claimed that his firm paid corporate tax (IS) in France, while the commission of inquiry noted that the French entities of McKinsey had not paid any IS for ten years.
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