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Loir-et-Cher: a couple indicted for partial unemployment fraud

2021-01-22T13:28:45.827Z


A couple from Loir-et-Cher, suspected of having embezzled more than 450,000 euros of partial activity allowances set up as part of the Covid-19 health crisis, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention , announced Friday the public prosecutor of Blois, Frédéric Chevallier. Read also: RSA scam, diversion of the AME, undue allowances: these frauds which are ruining France ... The man, 33 years


A couple from Loir-et-Cher, suspected of having embezzled more than 450,000 euros of partial activity allowances set up as part of the Covid-19 health crisis, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention , announced Friday the public prosecutor of Blois, Frédéric Chevallier.

Read also: RSA scam, diversion of the AME, undue allowances: these frauds which are ruining France ...

The man, 33 years old and already known to the police, as well as his companion, were indicted for scams and attempted scams by organized gangs and money laundering.

The couple is suspected of having improperly received compensation for large employee hourly volumes, through seven companies based in Loir-et-Cher and Ile-de-France.

For each company, “

the controls carried out made it possible to understand that the requests for partial activity and the compensation paid did not correspond at all to the reality of the activity of the company, which not only did not employ the employees supposed to be to be but also had no alleged economic activity

, ”writes the prosecutor in a statement.

Still according to the prosecution, the labor inspectors of Loir-et-Cher were able to demonstrate "

that the companies concerned all had in common (...) to have considerably increased their payroll on the occasion of the confinement for the months of March and April 2020

”.

The investigation entrusted to the Territorial Directorate of the Orléans judicial police revealed "

a real fraudulent, organized and lucrative system

", specifies Frédéric Chevallier.

The total of allowances unduly received thus amounts to nearly 453,000 euros.

To this are added 254,000 euros claimed by the seven companies concerned, but not paid by the State.

About 216,000 euros were seized by the courts on several accounts.

The penalties incurred are 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of one million euros, the prosecution said.

Source: lefigaro

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