Prosecuted for his omissions of declarations within the framework of his ancillary activities, doctor Jean-Jacques Charbonier has just been condemned for “concealed work” by the correctional court of Toulouse. His wife is also found guilty of complicity. The couple, on the other hand, benefits from a release for the money laundering.
Doctor Jean-Jacques Charbonier has just been sentenced this Monday, March 15 by the Toulouse Criminal Court for “concealed work”. Justice accuses this anesthetist of having “forgotten” to declare his income in the context of activities related to medicine.
Author of various books, conferences on life after death, Jean-Jacques Charbonnier has multiplied these parallel activities. The speaker who admits to being “a little angry with the figures”, forgot to declare them. The gendarmes had calculated these oversights at €335,000. Taxes limited the lawsuits to €82,000 over three years. The doctor, assisted by his wife, did not deny his lack of rigor but disputed any desire to conceal his income.
Before the court in mid-February, his lawyer Me Simon Cohen had also challenged the offense of “money laundering”. First to defend the doctor’s wife, small hands in the management of the ancillary activities of her husband, who found himself with him in court to answer for “concealed work” and “money laundering”. The defense believed that she had no writing or speaking activity. The wife is finally sentenced only for complicity in concealed work.
Fines of €50,000 and €30,000
Me Simon Cohen, who we can assume is satisfied, has been released from the money laundering proceedings. “Forgetting or misdeclaring your income absolutely does not demonstrate the desire to launder these same incomes”, had pleaded the lawyer. The court followed the prosecution and returned the couple’s house, seized in Ariège.
After deliberation, Jean-Jacques Charbonier is sentenced to a fine of €50,000 for “concealed work”, his wife to €30,000 for “complicity”. This 65-year-old doctor has retired. He remains under a suspension from practicing pronounced by the correctional appeals chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal following an operation that went wrong – an appeal in cassation remains in progress. And at the end of February, the disciplinary chamber of the Council of the Order of Physicians also sanctioned him (three months of suspension from practicing, including two months suspended), judging his absence from the operating room at fault during this intervention where the patient, badly asleep, had suffered martyrdom.
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