An investigation for organized gang fraud and money laundering was opened after a scam of several million euros against an accounting firm in the Marne, said Friday the prosecutor of Châlons-en-Champagne, confirming information from the daily. Union.
The investigation, entrusted to the judicial police of Reims, follows a complaint filed on January 6 by the CDER, a management and accounting association based in Châlons-en-Champagne and working in particular for the agricultural and wine-growing world of Champagne.
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Several hearings have already been carried out and, according to Eric Follet, director general of CDER contacted by AFP, a bank account to which the swindled funds were sent would have been identified in Germany.
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I quickly seized the liaison magistrate and asked for a request for international assistance to obtain the freezing of funds,
" prosecutor Ombeline Mahuzier told AFP, according to which several accounts have been identified.
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This scam is much more subtle than a simple cyber attack.
Moreover, our entire IT architecture has been preserved,
”emphasizes the CEO of CDER.
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High-level foreign crooks have mounted a financial scam called fake transfer orders, also called the false president scam,
" continued the leader.
The crooks pretended to be the president of the CDER and a lawyer to convince, after several weeks of manipulation and psychological pressure, the person responsible for the transfers to carry out the fraudulent transfer.
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The crooks explained that it was a top-secret operation to force this person to make a transfer without going through internal security procedures.
The bank has also skipped its own internal procedures,
”Mr. Follet also detailed.
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