INFO BFMTV – The rebellious deputy of Val-d’Oise Carlos Martens Bilongo continued to benefit, after his election in June 2022, from social housing in Villiers-le-Bel which he sublet to one of his sisters, while that he was at the same time the owner of two other apartments.
New case involving Carlos Martens Bilongo. A week after the opening of an investigation targeting him for “tax evasion” and “money laundering”, BFMTV reveals that the LFI deputy benefited until December 2022, six months after his election, from social housing that he sublet to one of his sisters in Villiers-le-Bel, in the Val-d’Oise, while at the same time he owned two other apartments.
“Yes, it’s true. I lived there”
Contacted by BFMTV this Tuesday evening, the person concerned confirms our information. “Yes, it’s true. I lived there. But everything has been regularized since December 2022,” he said.
According to his statements, Carlos Martens Bilongo lived for ten years in this social housing. He had however acquired, in 2018, two other apartments.
This information is contained in the report made by the anti-money laundering unit of Bercy to justice a few weeks ago about the deputy, learned BFMTV. It is this report that led the Pontoise public prosecutor’s office to open, in mid-April, a preliminary investigation into facts the fraud taxlaundering of tax evasion, misuse of corporate assets and failure to report to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP).
Sublet to his sister
Asked by BFMTV about this preliminary investigation, Carlos Martens Bilongo indicated last week that he had to take stock with his accountant and his lawyers, while denying that he wanted to be dishonest.
According to the elements of the investigators of the Bercy cell (Tracfin), Carlos Martens BIlongo would have left this social housing in 2020, but the housing remained occupied by one of his sisters who paid him rent for this. Asked about this point, Carlos Martens Bilongo did not deny.
“Yes, my sister was living with me. And she was contributing to the rent,” he conceded.
Regarding the fact that he also owned two other dwellings, he justified himself by indicating that one was “a rental investment”, the second being “under construction between 2018 and 2020” which, according to him, prevented him from living there.
