Dutch, French authorities raid Netflix offices in tax probe

Paris: French and Dutch authorities raided streaming giant Netflix s offices in Paris and Amsterdam Tuesday as part of a tax fraud probe, a judicial s...

Paris: French and Dutch authorities raided streaming giant Netflix's offices in Paris and Amsterdam Tuesday as part of a tax fraud probe, a judicial source told AFP.

The search of "various locations" in France by specialist financial investigators relates to suspicions of "covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work" and is part of a probe opened in November 2022, the source said.

Netflix's Amsterdam headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa was also targeted for a search by a team of officials from both France and the Netherlands.

"French and Dutch authorities have been cooperating on this criminal case for many months," the source said.

Dutch prosecutors confirmed the searches "in the context of a French legal assistance request", while the European Union agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) said it was "supporting the investigations" including Tuesday's searches.