Singer Gims in police custody in an organized gang cash laundering case | EUROtoday

The king of French-speaking track caught up in court docket. Gims was arrested on Wednesday March 25 when he bought off the aircraft in Paris and positioned in police custody in a case of organized gang cash laundering.

The 39-year-old Congolese artist is being heard as a part of a “commission rogatory of investigating judges”, adopted by the nationwide anti-organized crime prosecutor’s workplace (Pnaco), mentioned the latter, confirming data from the Africa Intelligence web site.

Contacted by AFP, the lawyer for the most important report vendor of the 12 months 2025 in France, Me David-Olivier Kaminski, didn’t want to react instantly.

An ongoing mission of 118 luxurious villas

Gims, actual title Gandhi Djuna, “was arrested by the national judicial customs service, when he left the plane upon arrival at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport”, a supply near the case advised AFP. He was then taken into custody.

The Pnaco, which displays the investigation, was created firstly of the 12 months to carry collectively probably the most complicated organized crime instances in Paris.

According to Africa Intelligence, Parisian judges are investigating a world cash laundering community, involving “a myriad of companies specially set up in different countries to circumvent VAT and other French taxes, facilitate the issuance of false invoices, launder funds from illegal activities and conceal their origin.”

“Five former Ile-de-France drug traffickers converted to financial crime” have already been “implicated” on this case, provides the location.

This specialised media affirms that the investigations are significantly occupied with an unlimited luxurious actual property mission promoted by Gims in Marrakech (Morocco), one of many cities the place he resides.

Called Sunset Village Private Residences, this ongoing mission of 118 luxurious villas, with sports activities fields, spa, sauna and hammam, round a 3,000 m2 lagoon, was launched with nice fanfare in 2025 within the presence of Gims.

Subscribed to the primary locations

This mission was to permit the rapper born in Kinshasa, within the Democratic Republic of Congo, and who arrived in France on the age of two along with his household who fled the regime, to speed up in enterprise, through luxurious actual property.

On the creative aspect, nothing appeared to have the ability to cease the success of the previous member of Sexion d’Assaut, Maître Gims – a reputation he had shortened to Gims seven years in the past.

With his darkish glasses and his hits, “Sapés comme Jam”, “Bella” or “Spider”, Gims has been on the prime of the rankings for round ten years.

Subscribed to the primary locations in all of the rankings on the platforms, an artist appreciated by the bulk and fewer divisive than others, he was topped greatest male artist on the fortieth Victoires de la Musique in 2025.

An ultra-popular stage man, he’s engaged in an extended tour of dozens of dates, which is able to take him to the Vélodrome in Marseille on June 19, 2027.

Until then, he should honor quite a few dates, beginning with Liévin (Pas-de-Calais) on April 18, then a tour of all the most important French festivals, from Francofolies to Solidays through Vieilles Charrues.

With AFP