Gims Case: The Mega-Project "Sunset Village" in Marrakech Would Hide a Vast International Fraud

Gandhi Djuna, 39 years old, was apprehended by customs upon disembarking from a plane at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Wednesday. The National Anti-Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office (Pnaco), a new Parisian unit dedicated to complex cases, confirmed on Thursday the extension of his custody. The singer is currently being questioned on a rogatory commission by investigating judges.

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At the heart of this sprawling investigation is Marrakech, one of the cities where the Congolese artist resides. According to Africa Intelligence, the magistrates are particularly targeting the "Sunset Village Private Residences". Launched with great fanfare in 2025 in the presence of Gims, this pharaonic complex promises 118 high-end villas, a spa, a hammam and sports facilities centered around a huge 3,000 square meter lagoon.

This real estate investment would conceal fraud on an international scale. The specialized media reveals the involvement of "a myriad of specially constituted companies in different countries". The purpose of such an opaque structure would be to evade French VAT and taxes, issue fictitious invoices and "launder funds from illegal activities" to erase their trace.

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The financial entourage of the project greatly intrigues the investigators. The file would already implicate "five former drug traffickers from the Paris region who have turned to financial crime". Faced with these serious accusations against the best-selling artist of the year 2025 in France, his lawyer, Me David-Olivier Kaminski, did not wish to comment.