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French and Dutch authorities have been working together for many
months on the investigation centering on the suspected
laundering of tax fraud and off-the-books work, said a judicial
official in France who spoke on condition of anonymity because
of French secrecy laws that apply to judicial probes.
French police investigators carried out searches of the
streaming giant's French headquarters, the judicial official
said. The investigators from a police brigade that specializes
in major tax fraud, money laundering, corruption and
white-collar financial crime were accompanied by officials from
the French national prosecutors' office that also combats
financial crimes, the official said.
“We are co-operating with the authorities in France, where
Netflix is a significant contributor to the local economy — and
we comply with the tax laws and regulations in all the countries
in which we operate,” a Netflix spokesperson wrote in a
statement.
The probe was opened in November 2022, the official said.
In the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors also raided Netflix's
European headquarters in Amsterdam. Emma Bosma, a spokesperson
for the National Office for Serious Fraud, Environmental Crime
and Asset Confiscation, said the raid was carried out at the
request of French authorities.
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AP correspondent Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands,
contributed.
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