The star of French-speaking track Gims goes earlier than the investigating decide | EUROtoday

From musical scenes to authorized terrain: Gims, king of French-speaking track, might be introduced to an investigating decide, as a part of a case of alleged cash laundering, after being arrested on Wednesday March 25 when he obtained off the aircraft in Paris.

The 39-year-old Congolese artist was transferred to courtroom on the finish of his police custody which started on Wednesday to be introduced to a Justice of the Peace, who can determine on a attainable indictment, we discovered on Friday from sources near the case.

Gims was heard in police custody as a part of a “commission rogatory from investigating judges”, adopted by the National Anti-Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office, the latter stated on Wednesday, confirming info from the Africa Intelligence web site.

Gandhi Djuna, his actual title, “was arrested by the national judicial customs service, when leaving the plane upon its arrival at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport”, a supply near the case instructed AFP in the course of the week.

The Pnaco, answerable for the case, was created firstly of the 12 months to convey collectively probably the most advanced organized crime circumstances 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 notably involved in an unlimited luxurious actual property challenge promoted by Gims in Marrakech (Morocco), one of many cities the place he resides.

Called Sunset Village Private Residences, this ongoing challenge 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.

Ultra-popular stage man

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

On the creative facet, nothing appeared till now to have the ability to cease the success of the previous member of Sexion d’Assaut, Maître Gims – a reputation that 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 highest positions on the platforms, an artist appreciated by the best quantity and fewer divisive than others, he was topped finest male artist on the fortieth victories of music in 2025.

An ultra-popular stage man, he’s engaged in a protracted 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.

The lawyer for the most important file vendor of the 12 months 2025 in France, Me David-Olivier Kaminski, has not spoken to this point.

With AFP