The singer and rapper Gims was placed in police custody to be heard in a case of money laundering by an organized gang, we learned on Wednesday from the national anti-organized crime prosecutor’s office (Pnaco).
The 39-year-old Congolese artist is being heard as part of a “commission rogatory of investigating judges”, followed by this specialized Parisian prosecutor’s office, said this source, after information from the Africa Intelligence site.
Contacted by AFP, the lawyer for the biggest record seller of the year 2025 in France, Me David-Olivier Kaminski, did not wish to react immediately.
Gims, whose real name is Gandhi Djuna, “was arrested by the national judicial customs service, when he left the plane upon arrival at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport,” a source close to the case told AFP. He was then taken into custody.
According to Africa Intelligence, Parisian judges are investigating a complex international money laundering network, 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” in this case, adds the site.
This specialized media affirms that the investigations are particularly interested in a vast luxury real estate project promoted by Gims in Marrakech (Morocco), called Sunset Village Private Residences.
