Roissy airport: four private hire companies involved in a juicy social and tax fraud

The illegal drivers were recruited through classified ads on specialized sites and found themselves transporting customers from Roissy airport, in particular, on behalf of four private hire companies ... Who did not declare their drivers to Urssaf, nor their income to the administration.

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The vast tax and social fraud has just been updated by the “Boers”, in other words, the police teams specializing in the fight against illegal transporters.

The damage to public finances is estimated at nearly € 3 million.

A series of arrests took place at the end of last week in Seine-Saint-Denis and in Paris.

Four people were brought in the wake of the Bobigny prosecution for money laundering and covert work committed in an organized gang.

The thread of the ball was pulled by the investigators following a routine check carried out last January, on the airport platform and during which a driver presents them with a fake VTC card.

A former investment banker at the head of the network

The Boers then put their noses into a major fraudulent system and embark on eleven months of investigations, taking advantage of the respite caused by the confinement on the activity of Roissy.

The names of a dozen people return to this network at the head of which is a former investment banker.

Under his orders, intermediaries and straw managers.

The companies collected in their bank accounts payments for errands made by illegal drivers.

The income which was not declared to the tax authorities seemed lucrative, since it would be around 5 M € according to the evaluations calculated during a year.

The case concerns facts taking place between November 2018 and October 2020. It remains to be seen how many customers were victims of these VTC companies and if they were aware of it.

Bleached money

The money thus earned was then laundered in several ways, as suggested by the seizures made during arrests, in particular concerning luxury watches.

The four main protagonists of the fraud were placed under "strict judicial control", with the ban on leaving the territory of the metropolis, the ban on running any company, the ban on coming into contact with each other. others, and for one of them, the payment of a deposit of € 300,000.

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The defendants who incur ten years' imprisonment and a € 750,000 fine will be tried on May 19, before the Bobigny Criminal Court.