A police officer stationed in Seine-Saint-Denis was indicted for "
criminal association
" and "
fraudulent modification of the police file
", suspected of having participated in a vast affair of corruption and trafficking in stolen cars, a we learned Saturday from the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
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The official assigned to the Saint-Ouen police station was placed under judicial control on Friday evening with a ban on carrying out police activity, said Bobigny prosecutor Eric Mathais.
After four days in police custody, he is also indicted for "
aggravated money laundering
".
The latter is suspected of having deleted from the File of Stolen Vehicles (Foves), vehicles found, without notifying their owners, to offer them for a commission to a network of traffickers responsible for disguising and reselling them, according to a source close to investigation.
Drag net
About sixty vehicles are concerned for damage of around one million euros, the same source said, confirming information from the Parisian.
A total of thirteen people, including two police officers, were taken into custody on Tuesday.
The arrests had been carried out by the IGPN, the “
police of the police
”, and the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) on the rogatory commission of an investigating judge from Bobigny.
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The custody of the second policeman, stationed in Paris, was lifted Friday afternoon without prosecution.
Among the arrested, four others were indicted for "
criminal association
" and "
none was imprisoned
", said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
The police also carried out a major crackdown in the network of suspected car traffickers, making eleven arrests in the conurbations of Marseille, Orléans, Toulouse and Perpignan.
