The rapper and singer Gims was released from police custody which began on Wednesday, to be presented to an investigating judge in a case of alleged money laundering, we learned on Friday from sources close to the case.
The investigating judge can decide on a possible indictment. The 39-year-old Congolese artist was arrested on Wednesday by customs, when leaving the plane, upon his arrival at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
Gims, whose real name is Gandhi Djuna, was interviewed in police custody as part of a rogatory commission from investigating judges who are investigating an alleged organized gang money laundering network.
The National Anti-Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office (Pnaco), which is monitoring the investigation, was created at the start of the year to bring together the most complex organized crime cases in Paris.
According to Africa Intelligence, which revealed this custody, this international money laundering network could involve “a myriad of companies specially set up in different countries to play with 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” in this case, adds the site. This specialized media affirms that investigators are particularly interested in a vast luxury real estate project promoted by Gims in Marrakech (Morocco), one of the cities where he resides.
Called Sunset Village Private Residences, this ongoing project of 118 luxury villas, with sports fields, spa, sauna and hammam, around a 3,000 m2 lagoon, was launched with great fanfare in 2025 in the presence of the king of French-speaking song.
The lawyer for the biggest record seller of the year 2025 in France, Me David-Olivier Kaminski, has not spoken so far.
