Criminal customs defense in Paris and Lyon
ADVENIAT Avocats has developed sought-after expertise in criminal customs law. We assist our customers at the inspection stage and before the criminal courts.
- Preventive audits to secure/mitigate the criminal customs risk of managers and legal entities
- Assistance and support at the stage of the customs investigation, the flagrante delicto investigation, the preliminary investigation or the judicial inquiry
- Open hearings
- Customs detention
- Strategic advice to companies/managers of companies notified of customs offences
- Opportunity and negotiation of transactions/negotiated solutions
- Assistance and defence before the courts
Criminal customs law
Our customs law firm has developed a highly sought-after expertise in criminal customs law.
The firm handles large-scale cases involving all the criminal implications of "classic" customs/fiscal offences (species, origin, value, special regimes) relating to national and Community customs law, as well as indirect taxation and energy/environmental taxation.
The firm is very active in criminal customs law, where it has extensive practical experience (investigations by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the examining magistrate, the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), the Financial Judicial Investigation Service (SEJF) and the National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (DNRED)), a niche area in a niche sector with the growing power of the European Public Prosecutor's Office.
The firm does not communicate about its clients. We assist our clients, both individuals and companies, upstream of any control, to prevent criminal risk, as well as at the stage of inquiries and investigations. The firm defends its clients before the various criminal courts, both in court hearings and in the implementation of negotiated solutions.
The firm is one of the first to handle cases investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office.
An expert in customs law, the firm is accustomed to working jointly with law firms specializing in business criminal law, for a customized defense in the client's best interests.