For months the controversy has swelled over the extent of fraud in social benefits, between defenders and detractors of the French system, one of the most generous in the world.
Tuesday, when submitting its report on the subject, the Court of Auditors declared itself unable to quantify the fraud.
“
What can't be reliably encrypted, well we don't.
Our priority is the examination of duly substantiated facts
”, kicked in touch Pierre Moscovici, first president of the Court of Auditors.
Others, however, have tried this delicate exercise, but with results that vary in a ratio of 1 to 100!
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The first to have launched a paving stone in the pond is the magistrate specializing in tax and social fraud Charles Prats, who released these days the “Cartel des Fraudes”
(ed. Ring, to be published on September 17).
Denouncing a "state scandal", Charles Prats, set fire to the powder in December 2018, claiming that 14 billion euros in social benefits
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