The policeman who marketed confidential information on the Darknet will be tried in two months.
The one who was called "Haurus" by his online interlocutors will appear from June 15 to 18 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) for having taken advantage of his capacity as a counter-terrorism investigator at the DGSI in order to search for private information in the police files and resell them to customers encountered on the Darknet, the underground side of the Internet.
At his side, five people will be tried before the criminal court, including his companion, a detainee who could have served as an intermediary in the settling of scores in the Marseille environment and a Parisian private detective who used his services to advance in his investigations.
"Haurus", pseudo of Cédric D. (the identity has been changed), 35,
is a very young police officer when in 2016, he was assigned to the prestigious Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI).
By working on a file of his anti-terrorism unit, linked to scams on the Darknet, Cédric D. understands the workings of the illicit transactions that take place there.
As early as June 2017, he was requested by an Internet user who was looking for confidential information taken from real driving licenses in order to manufacture fakes, nicknamed “doublets” in the jargon.
In debt, the sergeant accepts and undertakes to market on this network data collected on files strictly reserved for police investigators: the official coins the criminal record, birth certificates, addresses, telephone numbers, license plates to whom the will pay.
In total, according to a count of investigators, Cédric D. will have issued 395 illegitimate requests on these files.
But it also goes further and uses very intrusive means concerning private life, reserved for investigators, judicial police officers.
To obtain detailed telephone bills or geolocation of telephone lines over one year, the police officer uses the national platform for judicial interceptions (PNIJ), which centralizes requests for judicial wiretapping.
The appeal is normally subject to the authorization of a magistrate within the framework of a judicial inquiry.
Each time, "Haurus falsely attaches its requests to cases for which its group is responsible", can we read in the order for reference to the criminal court dated April 1 and of which the Parisian was aware.
For these requests, "Haurus" borrows the number of an ongoing procedure and attaches the name of a magistrate, counting on the overload of work and the inattention of the latter ... 280 illegitimate requisitions to the PNIJ were identified by investigators.
Without any link with his usual terrorism files, Cédric D. thus launches research to identify one of the accusers of the preacher Tariq Ramadan (civil party in this case) or Laure Boulleau, former professional footballer and consultant of Canal + who had was blackmailed by sextape in 2015. Denis Olivennes, then at the head of Lagardère Active, was also the subject of one of these illegitimate searches.
Who was this information intended for?
The investigation could not determine the identity of this client, who was also interested in British politicians and French personalities of economic intelligence.
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"I slipped at all levels": the confessions of "Haurus", ex-policeman of the DGSI
Like an entrepreneur, "Haurus" carefully classifies his orders and the results of his searches in directories stored on USB keys and computers found during searches.
During these searches, the material necessary for the production of false documents was also found.
The man admitted to having sold counterfeit checks (140 euros per unit), RIB, bank account identifiers (1000 euros), identity cards (100 euros) or driving licenses (200 euros). ).
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In conversations with some of his privileged clients, Cédric D. barely conceals his quality as a police officer and ensures that he receives two to three orders per day, for a return of 300 to 400 euros per day.
In a situation of over-indebtedness and banking ban until the fall of 2020 after a "toxic" connection, the police officer offers himself a few small trips with his hidden earnings.
But nothing out of the ordinary: holidays in Martinique, Puglia (Italy), or Serre-Chevalier (Hautes-Alpes).
The birthday of his companion (also indicted) will nevertheless be organized in the gourmet restaurant of a luxury hotel on Place Vendôme in Paris.
Contacted by us, Me Yassine Bouzrou, his lawyer, comments: “My client recognizes a serious drift but he assures that he has never violated the defense secret.
He will assume his responsibilities before the criminal court.
"
"See the address where he sleeps, STP."
On the other hand, if he disappears, it won't be us ”
Christophe N., 52,
is a detainee from Bouches-du-Rhône.
Under the name "CvvGold" or "Quibo", he maintains a "respectful" business relationship with "Haurus" which he seems to understand belongs to the police.
He, in any case, does not hide being in prison.
On behalf of other people, Christophe N. asked Cédric D. for information on figures of Marseille banditry.
In exchange for 400 euros, Christophe N. thus claims the "total" on the companion of a thug: "I want the name of his mother, where his mother live and even her father (...) where she lives, all of this nobody, the total, children, children's school, I want everything ”.
In another exchange dating back to spring 2018, the detainee asks for information on Jean-Louis Grimaudo, a well-known delinquent in Marseille circles and who has just been released from prison.
Christophe N. claims: "See the address where he sleeps, please.
On the other hand, if he disappears, it won't be us because he has lots of enemies, the guy ”.
Sure of himself, Cédric D. replies: “With a bracelet, it will be simple, he must not move very far.
Did he drool?
"Christophe N.:" I don't know what he did, it's guys from the South, I don't get involved, I don't even want to know "Six days after the last search made by" Haurus ", the one nicknamed "the Fat" was shot in the Capelette district of Marseille.
Two other Marseille thugs could have been shot in the weeks following the sale of information from Cédric D. to Christophe N. In this part of the case, both were indicted in Marseille.
Mathieu L., 40
, is a “regular customer” of “Haurus”.
On behalf of this private detective from Seine-et-Marne, the police officer would have carried out in 2018 between 40 and 50 searches (paid around 100 euros per unit).
Information intended to feed its investigations related to adultery or commercial disputes.
Unlike his other regular contacts, Cédric D. meets Mathieu L. in the real world: from 2018, every three weeks, the two men meet at Porte Maillot in Paris, sometimes in the 15th arrondissement, for payment in cash.
Between January and September 2018, the private detective would have paid between 5,000 and 6,000 euros to the police officer.
The clientele of a high-end clothing store targeted
Joël-Hugues S, 27,
has been a companion of “Haurus” since 2016. Indicted in September 2018, the law student at a Parisian university is suspected of having learned of the illegal activities of his spouse, d 'to have taken advantage of it and to have laundered false notes supplied by Cédric D. Seller in a ready-to-wear store, Joël-Hugues would have passed these false notes in the cash register or would have given them to customers.
The foreign customers of this store would also have been targeted by the couple: the investigators discovered that Joël-Hugues S. provided his companion with copies of bank cards and passports of these Mexican, German or Chinese buyers, whom he thought wealthy. .
This information would then have been put up for sale on the Darkweb but without meeting any success ...
"We mainly reproach our client for having been
Haurus'
companion
, react his lawyers, My Antoine Vey and Dylan Slama.
He is now in detention when his working knowledge of Darknet or cryptocurrency is extremely peripheral.
The use of prison for a young man so integrated and without any criminal record is incomprehensible.
"
Sébastien R., 40,
calls himself "Dexx" on the Darkweb, which he has been browsing diligently since he watched a television show in 2013-2014.
From 2015 and until his arrest in the fall of 2018, this unemployed man from Pas-de-Calais, who is struggling to launch his computer repair box, would have marketed 90 administrative documents, mainly identity cards, to 77 customers, for a gain of 3000 euros per month.
It was not until July 2018 that the forger became one of the privileged partners of “Haurus” on the Darknet: the first took orders for false papers, the second made them.
Both share the winnings.
Johan K., 35
, lost his job in a supermarket in 2015 after health problems.
In 2016, this father of a 4-year-old girl became the intermediary of Cédric D. This specialist in the manufacture and sale of vehicle registration documents and driving licenses took control of "dox", this private information and confidential and transmits them to "Haurus" which launches its research.
From January 2017, this man who calls himself "Jojodelavegas" on occult forums, has even started prospecting for customers on behalf of the police officer.
His earnings will be spent on luxury clothing and brands.