Former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac's was jailed for three years on Thursday. Here is a look at how he became a political pariah in France after being charged with tax fraud and kicked out of the government in 2013.
Former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who resigned in disgrace in 2013 after admitting to having a secret Swiss bank
account, goes on trial Monday for tax fraud.
France’s disgraced former budget minister Jerôme Cahuzac, who was sacked after admitting he hid funds in a Swiss account, also had a €2.5 million stashed in a secret bank account in the Isle of Man, a British tax haven, it was claimed on Thursday.
Some 11,000 French tax evaders, with secret funds hidden abroad have decided to own up in a bid to escape harsh punishments, France's budget minister has revealed. The mass mea culpa could bring in €1 billion ($1.4 billion) in extra revenue.
France’s former budget minister turned political pariah Jérôme Cahuzac, who has been charged with tax fraud, has provoked anger by filing an expenses claim asking parliament to pay for his travel costs, for when he appeared as part of a parliamentary inquiry into his wrongdoing.
It just gets worse and worse for France's ex-Budget Minister turned political pariah Jérôme Cahuzac. Facing a trial for tax fraud offences, he has been hit with a further charge of lying to the government, according to judicial sources.
French President François Hollande’s crusade against political corruption hit a roadblock early on Tuesday morning after the Senate voted to remove the most crucial article that would have forced ministers to make their assets public.
He hasn’t spoken in public in France for two years, but disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to play the role of professor on Wednesday, when he delivers a lecture on tax evasion to French Senators, much to the disgust of certain politicians.
Paris investigators are formally investigating the French branch of Swiss bank UBS on suspicion it helped try to persuade rich French clients to open undeclared accounts in Switzerland, a legal source said.
High ranking ministers in the French government can expect a grilling in the coming days as an investigation into a tax fraud scandal got underway on Tuesday. The probe was set up after the former budget minister admitted having a secret bank account.
As the French president put forward his plan to clean up politics to the government this week, Jacques Terray, Vice President of Transparency International France, tells The Local why the proposals must become law to restore public faith in politicians.
France's disgraced former budget minister, Jérôme Cahuzac gave his first televised interview on Tuesday since he quit his post after being charged with tax fraud. France's PM described it as a "pathetic" communications ploy.
Hounded by the media over a major tax fraud scandal, France's former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac is having to "move every two days" to escape the glare, he said in an interview published on Thursday.
Disgraced former French budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac tried to invest some €15 million ($19.4 million) in a Swiss fund in 2009, Swiss public television network RTS reported on Sunday.
After the dramatic downfall of Jérôme Cahuzac this week, The Local looks back at some of the juiciest political scandals in French history. Underage ballerinas, African dictators, and sinful cardinals - here are the Top Ten outrageous French political scandals.
For 30 years he's been France's muck-raking journalist par excellence, and this week his investigative news site caused one of the most spectacular political downfalls in recent French history. Edwy Plenel is our French Face of the Week.
President François Hollande described the actions of disgraced ex-Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac on Wednesday as "an insult to the Republic" and vowed to introduce a new law on ministers' wealth. Cahuzac has been charged in a tax evasion probe.
France's former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac confessed on Tuesday to having hidden €600,000 in a foreign bank account for the last 20 years. He was subsequently charged with the offence of "laundering the proceeds of tax fraud".
The resignation of Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac amid allegations he held a secret Swiss bank account has rocked the French government. Political commentators are describing it as President François Hollande’s greatest crisis yet.
