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Financial fraud: good 2019 results from Tracfin

2020-07-02T23:34:32.312Z


LE FIGARO INFO - Bercy's intelligence service analyzed 100,000 suspicious information, or 25% more in one year.


The business takes place between September 2018 and September 2019, when a fiber optic installation company receives, in total, more than one million euros in its bank account from other companies in the sector. Tracfin, Bercy's financial intelligence service, which combats money laundering, fraud and the financing of terrorism, receives the information - probably from a financial institution - and conducts the investigation.

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With these sums, the company has made more than 680,000 euros in transfers to individuals, many of whom are registered as micro-entrepreneurs. Payments without justification or agreement to provide services. Result of the races? Suspicion of fraud "concealed work and excessive use of the micro-entrepreneur regime" , with transmission of the file to social organizations.

25% increase

It is one of 14,082 investigations carried out in 2019 by the 175 Tracfin agents, who were not unemployed. The service has indeed received

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Source: lefigaro

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