FRANCE: Police raid financial advisor home over Sarkozy cash gift probe
French police searched the residence and office of a financial advisor to L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to investigate allegations of illegal donations from France’s richest woman to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign. Read More
FRANCE: What the butler heard: L’Oreal heiress’ tax scandal taints minister
Tapes secretly recorded by a butler, €1 billion in lavish gifts to a society photographer, alleged tax evasion and a government minister’s wife: all ingredients in a scandal involving France’s richest woman. Read More
FRANCE: What the butler heard – L’Oreal heiress tax scandal hits minister
France’s richest woman, tapes secretly recorded by a butler, lavish gifts to a society photographer totalling a billion euros, alleged tax evasion and the role of a government minister’s wife: all the ingredients for a scandal at the top. Read More
FRANCE: L’Oreal billionaire heiress pledges to declare all assets after tax-dodge scandal
L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, said she would comply with the law and declare her assets, after being caught on tape allegedly plotting tax evasion while making donations to the governing UMP party. Read More