INFO THE DEPECHE. Toulouse: Doctor Charbonnier faced with his bad tax accounts
Doctor Jean-Jacques Charbonnier was back before the Toulouse Criminal Court this Monday, February 14. This time for omissions of tax declarations in particular within the framework of its ancillary activities, as a writer and as a lecturer.
Doctor Charbonnier, an anesthesiologist banned from practicing medicine for three years by decision of the Toulouse Court of Appeal in May 2020, returned to the Toulouse Criminal Court on Monday. This time, this 65-year-old man had to talk big money. “I made mistakes. I’m not very quantified, ”defends the doctor now retired, compensated with his wife, absent from the hearing.
Justice was interested in his income outside medicine. The writing of his books and his hypnosis sessions which allow, according to him and several “patients”, to come into contact with the missing persons. Workshops, conferences “which have a certain success”, specifies the president Carole Mauduit. “Initially, you did all this for free and then you were appointed…” The interested party confirmed and admits: “I was negligent”, accusing his accountant of having badly advised him.
The gendarmes of the Toulouse research section have made the additions and estimate the diversion at €355,000 over three years, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. “Adding up is good but you still have to know what we are talking about”, s annoys Me Simon Cohen. “The frauds, if they exist, relate to the profits, not to the turnover which, already, is revealed at 204,000 €”, argues the lawyer. Figures established by the tax administration. “For these real specialists, the profit can be set at €82,000 over three years, nothing more. »
For the defense: “The will to conceal does not exist”
And as on the side of the Urssaf, the copyright regime is rather favorable, the recovery concerns 34,132 €. “But the fraud exists and is not contestable, such as money laundering and concealed work,” said the prosecution. The prosecutor abandons the seizure of the house in Ariège but claims an 18-month suspended prison sentence and a €50,000 fine for the gentleman, only a suspended sentence for his wife who helps him in his activities.
“Comment? Where? When. Does she write books? No. She lectures? Not anymore. You can’t blame her. is prosecuted, “defends Me Cohen. For the doctor, the lawyer reduces the sums supposedly embezzled. “Since when is tax evasion based on a turnover? In law this does not hold. And depositing funds on the accounts does not constitute tax evasion or money laundering. Where is the will to conceal? It does not exist.”
The court reserved judgment. Decision expected on Monday, March 14.