A false entrepreneur impersonates a real boss. He takes out a state guaranteed loan (PGE) - set up to support businesses in the face of the crisis -, receives this loan in a bank account and quickly disappears abroad, the money in his pocket. The trick is played in no time. It is a reality: if the health restrictions brought part of the economy to a halt, they did not however slow down the enthusiasm of the crooks. The latter took advantage of emergency aid to businesses, granted easily and in record time.
"The imagination of fraudsters is limitless, all the more so when new subsidies are put in place",
recently warned the Minister of Public Accounts, Olivier Dussopt, in an interview with
Le Figaro
.
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