MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court said on Tuesday it has confiscated millions of euros worth of property owned by an uncle of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his associates as part of a probe into alleged money laundering. The swoop comes less than a year after Rifaat al-Assad, an opponent of his nephew’s government, […]

 On 12 January, the Paris Criminal Court acquitted Guy Wildenstein, who was facing the possibility of two years in prison and a €250 million fine, and other members of his family as well as their trustees and advisors who were also facing fines and suspended sentences for facilitating tax fraud. According to the French tax […]

A former minister who led a French government crackdown on tax evasion was sentenced to three years in jail on Thursday for hiding an offshore bank account of his own, in a scandal that deeply embarrassed President Francois Hollande. A Paris court found Jerome Cahuzac, a cosmetic surgeon by trade who was made budget minister […]