On Tuesday, September 27, a tax lawyer was sentenced in Paris to a one-year suspended prison sentence followed by a temporary ban from practicing. He was accused of having helped a couple to evade taxes between 2007 and 2014 via the companies of these clients in Luxembourg.

In the Paris judicial court, during a hearing of appearance on prior recognition of guilt (CRPC), a kind of plea bargain in the French style, a tax lawyer admitted to have helped a couple to evade taxes between 2007 and 2014 via the companies of these clients in Luxembourg. This couple is a manager of a hundred companies. He therefore accepted the sentence negotiated between his lawyers and the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF). He will receive a one-year suspended prison sentence, an 18-month ban on practicing law, 14 months of which will be suspended, and a 50,000 euro fine.