More than a million euros embezzled in 6 years.
A couple was indicted and imprisoned Thursday in Reims, suspected of having embezzled 1.1 million euros from a private cancer institute in the city, the prosecution said on Sunday.
Seized in the fall of 2020 of a complaint from the Courlancy cancer institute, the Reims prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette entrusted the investigation to the judicial police, which revealed embezzlement of more than one million euros committed between 2014 to 2020, he reported, confirming information from the newspaper L'Union.
The indicted man - without a criminal record like his wife - served as accountant and IT manager of this institute, a position from which he was also dismissed for misconduct.
"Complex financial arrangements"
The investigation made it possible to establish “embezzlement of funds by false invoicing, for nearly 500,000 euros, and embezzlement of materials, for a little over 600,000 euros, with subsequently complex financial arrangements to conceal the are in the patrimony of the accused ”, according to the prosecutor.
Investigators seized in this file for nearly 780,000 euros of various values.
If the former employee admitted the embezzlement, he denied the misappropriation of materials, citing donations from the companies with which he worked. His wife admitted that she knew the origin of the funds and benefited from it. A judicial investigation was opened in particular of the counts of fraud, breach of trust, concealment of these crimes and money laundering.
