Jérôme Cahuzac

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Jérôme Cahuzac (2012)

Jérôme Cahuzac (born June 19, 1952 in Talence , Gironde department ) is a French politician . From May 16, 2012 to March 19, 2013, he was Assistant Minister for the Budget in the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade in the Ayrault I and Ayrault II cabinets . He belonged to the Parti Socialiste (PS) before they expelled him in April 2013.

Life

After attending school, Cahuzac studied medicine and after completing his studies as a doctor of medicine worked as a surgeon , where he was an assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic of the Hôpitaux de Paris between 1984 and 1988 . From 1988 to 1991 he was technical advisor to Claude Évin , who at the time was Minister of Social Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Michel Rocard .

After working again as a surgeon, he began his political career by representing constituency No. 3 of the Lot-et-Garonne department in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and then again from 2007 and 2012 as a candidate for the PS . He was also a member of the General Council of this department from 1998 to 2001 and mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Lot from 2001 to 2012 .

After the election of François Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean-Marc Ayrault as Prime Minister, Cahuzac was appointed Assistant Minister for the Budget in his cabinet on May 17, 2012 , and as such was Minister for Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade Pierre Moscovici reports .

After the public prosecutor's office had initiated an investigation into suspected tax evasion, he resigned on March 19, 2013, but denied the allegation. He is accused of having undeclared bank accounts with the major Swiss bank UBS and with the Geneva-based financial company Reyl & Cie, and from 2010 in Singapore. He was succeeded by Bernard Cazeneuve . On April 2, 2013, he admitted the existence of the account and said he was caught in a spiral of lies. On December 8, 2016, Cahuzac was sentenced in the first instance to three years in prison for tax fraud, money laundering and false property declarations. He went into revision; the court ( cour d'appel de Paris ) ruled on May 15, 2018.

Others

Edwy Plenel (* 1952), a well-known French journalist (among others, editor-in-chief of the daily Le Monde from 1996 to 2004 ) played a key role in uncovering Cahuzac's foreign accounts.

Web links

Commons : Jérôme Cahuzac  - collection of images, videos and audio files
(former mandates and functions in the National Assembly)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the article on tagesschau.de ( memento from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from April 3, 2013
  2. ^ Spiegel.de: Scandal over foreign assets: French ministers reveal their accounts
  3. ↑ welt.de March 19, 2013: Top saver resigns due to account affair
  4. ↑ Le Figaro , April 3, 2013: La banque Reyl et Cie au cœur de l'affaire Cahuzac , accessed April 9, 2013
  5. ^ Secret account in Switzerland - France's budget minister Cahuzac resigns . Süddeutsche.de, March 19, 2013
  6. ↑ Secret foreign account: France's ex-minister admits lying for months , Spiegel Online, April 2, 2013
  7. ↑ spiegel.de April 6, 2013: France's ex-budget minister: Cahuzac is said to have presented a forged tax document
  8. ↑ Nikos Tzermias: Three Years Prison: Exemplary Punishment for Cahuzac . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 8, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 2, 2017]).
  9. ↑ www.ca-paris.justice.fr
  10. ^ Fraude fiscale: Jérôme Cahuzac, condamné à deux ans ferme en appel, n'ira pas en prison
  11. ↑ FAZ.net April 4, 2013 / Michaela Wiegel : The journalist who brought Hollande into distress
  12. ↑ Plenel and others have been running the fee-based website mediapart.fr since 2008
personal data
SURNAME Cahuzac, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (Socialist Party), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Talence , Gironde department