They were not at the stand to take note of their conviction.
This Friday the Nanterre criminal court found guilty the three men suspected of having embezzled more than 400,000 euros in subsidies from the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council.
Tried on January 26 by the 15th chamber of the court, the three defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to three years in prison.
Considered the mastermind of this scam, Hasnain H was given the heaviest sentence with three years of imprisonment, including one year under house arrest, for “fraud carried out by an organized gang” and “fraudulent introduction of data in an automated processing system.
Between May 10 and 23, this 28-year-old contractual agent who had been recruited as an accountant by the department in the fall of 2022, replaced the bank identity statements (RIB) of associations receiving subsidies with those of two companies: the company FR Renov and SAS SPI.
Dissolution of the two companies to which the money was diverted
Two companies whose declared directors are the other defendants, Kouraichi A. and Arsalan T. The money intended for associations working for social accommodation and for people with disabilities, was thus diverted to the accounts of these two construction and renovation companies.
Over this period, a total of six transfers reached the accounts of the two companies for a total amount of 412,375 euros.
A sum already recovered, in large part, by the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council, following a report from the Banque de France for a suspicious transfer.
The sponsor was also fined 10,000 euros, of which 8,000 have already been paid, and banned from working in the public service for five years.
He is also ineligible for the same period and no longer has the right to manage a company.
Considered by the president of the court as “straw men” at the head of the two companies, his two accomplices Kouraichi A. and Arsalan T, received respectively one and two years of suspended prison sentence for “money laundering” and “ aggravated money laundering” for “organized gang participation in an investment operation, concealment, or conversion of the proceeds of a tax fraud offense”.
The two nominees were barred from running a business.
The court also declared the dissolution of their two companies.
In solidarity with Hasnain H, each of them is obliged to reimburse the embezzled sums which have not yet been recovered by, i.e. respective amounts of 39,093 euros and 74,974 euros.