Soulez Larivière Avocats represents individuals and companies who are accused of, or are victims of, embezzlement and/or fraud.
Examples:
- Defence of a foreign company and its director, who were implicated in a judicial investigation opened in France concerning misleading commercial practices, counterfeiting, fraud and deception.
- Defence of a senior civil servant implicated in a pre-trial investigation into the misappropriation of public funds (fictitious employment); securing the quashing of the formal indictment before the investigating chamber.
- Assistance to several individuals acting as civil parties in connection with a complaint of fraud relating to property sales, involving losses amounting to several million euros.
- Defence of a director accused of misappropriation of company assets and bankruptcy offences, following a report by the statutory auditor.
- Assistance to an individual implicated in a case of organised fraud, misappropriation of company assets and bankruptcy in the private security sector.
- Defence of an individual accused in a VAT carousel scheme (value-added tax fraud involving several companies to obtain a refund, from an EU Member State, of tax that had never been paid at the earlier stage).
- Defence of an individual, a director of companies and associations, in a case of organised fraud, bankruptcy through misappropriation of assets, breach of trust, misleading commercial practices, money laundering by an organised gang and tax fraud, also including a public health aspect (aggravated deception, illegal practice as a dental surgeon, violence resulting in mutilation, and causing unintentional injury in the dental sector).
- Representation of an individual as a civil party in a case of fraud by misrepresentation committed in France and Morocco.
- Representation of a French company as a civil party in a case of fraud and breach of trust, concerning acts involving one of its employees in France, Mexico and China.
- Defence of a foreign bank following a direct summons by the civil party for false accusation, following a decision to dismiss the case in a preliminary investigation opened for fraud and breach of trust. Acquittal obtained before the Criminal Court, confirmed by a judgment of the Court of Appeal finding that the public prosecution had definitively lapsed and referring the matter back to the civil proceedings. The civil party’s claims were dismissed by the Court of Appeal; the appeal to the Court of Cassation was dismissed.