No passage through the prison box.
The Bastia criminal court delivered its verdict this Wednesday and sentenced Djibril Cissé to eight months suspended prison sentence for misuse of corporate assets and omission of accounting entries. His sentence is also accompanied by a fine of 20,000 euros and deprivation of the right to stand for election for three years. Also suspected of tax fraud and laundering of tax fraud, the former French striker was finally acquitted of this charge. During his trial, which he did not attend, in Bastia on September 11, a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 euros were requested.
“Justice ruled in my favor”
Djibril Cissé was accused of having “transferred money to his bank accounts”according to the prosecutor, from his single-member simplified joint stock company (SASU). The current account of his company, although placed in compulsory liquidation in 2020, remained in debt of 550,000 euros, a sum that the ex-OM player had not declared to the tax administration according to the AFP.
A few hours after the verdict, the current coach of the Auxerre attackers was delighted with the agency that his alleged tax fraud had not been upheld: “I have always said that I had not defrauded the tax authorities and the courts proved me right. »
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