Ella Gomes
Associate
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from Ella Gomes
Publication
11 July 2025
Paprec CJIP: Enforcement in the context of Competition & Public Procurement Breaches
Focus on the criminalization of breaches of competition and public procurement rules using the Paprec CJIP as an example, for...
Analysis
20 May 2025
CJIP Paprec: criminal penalties applicable to violations of the rules governing public procurement
On 10 February 2025, Paprec signed a “Convention judiciaire d'intérêt public” – CJIP (equivalent to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement) to...
Analysis
6 May 2025
Looking back at the CJIP Between KLUBB France SAS and the French National Financial Prosecutor’s...
KLUBB France SAS entered into a CJIP on February 11 2025, in relation to acts of bribery involving a foreign...
Analysis
15 January 2025
Wiretapping scandal: final convictions for former French President, his lawyer, and a French magistrate
On 18 December 2024, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer Thierry Herzog, and a magistrate Gilbert Azibert were definitively...
Analysis
20 September 2024
Look back at the CJIP concluded between Danske Bank and the French National financial prosecutor’s...
Danske Bank was charged with tax fraud laundering which occurred between 2007 and 2014 due to the lack of effectiveness...
Event
12 September 2024
Future prospects for International Anti-Corruption Court
Look back at the roundtable held on 13 June 2024 at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in...
Analysis
25 June 2024
Articulation of tax and criminal procedures: consequences of the corrective declaration on the obligation to...
In a ruling handed down on 23 May 2024, the Criminal Division of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court),...
Analysis
26 February 2024
A flexible approach of the principle of loyalty regarding the evidence in civil matters –...
The decision of 22 December 2023 recognizes the admissibility of evidence obtained or produced in an illicit or unfair manner...
Analysis
22 February 2024
New clarifications on the repression of tax fraud offences and tax fraud laundering by the...
On 13 December 2023, the Cour de cassation first ruled on the concept of non bis in idem, rejecting the...
Analysis
20 February 2024
A French dairy group suspected of tax fraud
Since 2018, Lactalis has been suspected of committing tax fraud and laundering the proceeds of such fraud via schemes involving...
Analysis
17 November 2023
Saga UBS: second reassessment of the UBS’s historic financial penalty
On November 15, 2023, as part of the UBS saga that began on 20 February 2019, the judges on the...
News
5 October 2023
Fillon saga: Final conviction of former prime minister in fictitious employment scandal confirmed
In response to an application for a priority preliminary ruling on the issue of constitutionality (“question prioritaire de constitutionnalité”), the...
Analysis
3 October 2023
Procedural framework for automatic denunciations by French tax authorities
On September 13, 2023, the judges on the Quai de l'Horloge strictly applied article L.228 I of the French Tax...
Analysis
18 September 2023
French Supreme Court (Court de Cassation) recognizes the universal jurisdiction of the French judicial courts...
In two rulings handed down on May 12, 2023, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) clarifies the conditions under...
Publication
14 July 2023
Focus on Judicial public interest agreements (CJIP)
Since its creation by the Sapin II law of 9 December 2016, the Judicial Public Interest Agreement (“Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt...
Analysis
14 July 2023
Airbus signs a second CJIP for corruption
Le PNF et laThe PNF and Airbus entered into a new CJIP on November 30, 2022 for acts of bribery...
Analysis
14 July 2023
Clarification of the ne bis in idem principle under European Union law with regard to...
On 22 March 2023, the criminal division of the French Court of Cassation has issued a ruling by which it...
