At the solemn hearing at the Bobigny judicial court, Éric Mathais, the public prosecutor, focused on one of the plagues of Seine-Saint-Denis: the laundering of dirty money.
In 2023, the judicial court seized 42 million euros in criminal assets, an increase of 8%.
Once washed out, these sums flow into the legal economy in a thousand ways: from buildings, businesses, wages from undeclared work, winning tickets from sports betting, etc.
The rest after this ad
A real “ecosystem” is developing in Seine-Saint-Denis, a territory “eaten by the underground economy” and fueled by the windfall generated by endemic drug trafficking, notes Isabelle Minguet, deputy prosecutor in charge of economic and financial affairs. in Bobigny.
In 2016, deputy prosecutor Sébastien Piffeteau estimated the turnover of the deal at 1 billion.
Subscribe
Already subscribed?
To log in