The French hairdresser Franck Provost has been indicted for “abuse of social assets” and “money laundering in an organized group of aggravated tax fraud”, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
Since this indictment, which took place on Tuesday during his presentation to an examining magistrate in Nanterre, the founder of the Provalliance group has been placed under judicial supervision “with a deposit set at several hundred thousand euros”, specified the Nanterre parquet floor.
According to the prosecution, “several reports” were “transmitted by the tax administration in 2017 concerning the use of fraudulent cash register software to divert cash receipts from a network of hairdressing salons”.
20 years of business
The 75-year-old businessman is also indicted for “providing equipment and programs to commit offenses and breaches of automated data processing systems”.
A preliminary investigation was opened and entrusted to the National Brigade for the Repression of Fiscal Crime of the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses (OCLCIFF).
The investigation covers events ranging from 2001 to 2021.
On April 9, an opening of judicial information had given rise to the indictment of the administrative and financial director of the group.
It relates in particular to the offenses of “abuse of corporate assets and complicity, breach of trust, tax fraud and complicity, money laundering in an organized group of aggravated tax fraud, illegal exercise of the profession of accountant, possession, offer, provision of equipment and programs for committing offenses and breaches of automated data processing systems ”.
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