French and Dutch investigators raid Netflix offices in probe of suspected financial wrongdoing

Judicial officials opportunity prosecutors and constabulary investigators who specialize successful fighting awesome fraud and corruption person raided Netflix offices successful France and nan Netherlands

PARIS -- Prosecutors and constabulary investigators who specialize successful fighting fraud and corruption raided Netflix offices successful France and nan Netherlands connected Tuesday, successful a probe of suspected financial wrongdoing, judicial officials said.

French and Dutch authorities person been moving together for galore months connected nan investigation centering connected nan suspected laundering of taxation fraud and off-the-books work, said a judicial charismatic successful France who said connected information of anonymity because of French secrecy laws that use to judicial probes.

French constabulary investigators carried retired searches of nan streaming giant's French headquarters, nan judicial charismatic said. The investigators from a constabulary brigade that specializes successful awesome taxation fraud, money laundering, corruption and white-collar financial crime were accompanied by officials from nan French nationalist prosecutors' agency that besides combats financial crimes, nan charismatic said.

The probe was opened successful November 2022, nan charismatic said.

In nan Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors besides raided Netflix's European office successful Amsterdam. Emma Bosma, a spokesperson for nan National Office for Serious Fraud, Environmental Crime and Asset Confiscation, said nan ambush was carried retired astatine nan petition of French authorities.

Netflix didn't instantly reply to a written petition for remark sent to its online media halfway astir nan raids and nan probe.

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AP analogous Mike Corder successful The Hague, Netherlands, contributed.