PARIS (AP) — Prosecutors and police investigators specializing in fighting fraud and corruption have raided Netflix (NFLX) of France and the Netherlands on Tuesday in an investigation into alleged financial misconduct, judicial officials said.

French and Dutch authorities have been cooperating for several months on the investigation, which focuses on suspected tax laundering and off-the-record work, said a judicial official in France who spoke on condition of anonymity because of French secrecy laws that apply. judicial investigations.

French police investigators raided the streaming giant’s French headquarters, the judicial official said. Investigators from a police brigade specializing in major tax fraud, money laundering, corruption and white-collar financial crime were joined by officials from France’s national prosecutor’s office, which also fights financial crime, the official said.

The probe was opened in November 2022, the official said.

In the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors also raided Netflix’s European headquarters in Amsterdam. Emma Bosma, spokeswoman for the National Office for Serious Fraud, Environmental Crime and Asset Confiscation, said the raid was carried out at the request of French authorities.

Netflix did not immediately respond to a written request for comment sent to its online media center about the raids and the investigation.

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AP correspondent Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed.