Like the measures to combat pollution, those implemented to save energy are in turn the business of crooks.
A 49-year-old man was indicted on February 22, 2024 in Paris for “organized gang fraud and money laundering” before being imprisoned.
He is suspected of having, between 2015 and 2017, cheated the national platform for energy saving certificates (PNCEE) to the tune of 13.5 million euros.
In short: this company manager hijacked the system of financing energy saving works by creating false files and claiming that projects were never carried out.
It was on July 28, 2017 that Tracfin, the policeman of banking transactions, reported this fraud to the Paris prosecutor's office.
He points to the Parisian company Unergia, which has only one employee and manager: Cédric.
The forty-year-old who lives in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis), seems quite far from this activity since he has until now only worked in restaurants and in the markets.
Another more than suspicious element, the address of his company corresponds to a domiciliation company located on the Champs-Élysées.
It has the status of “delegate” and can thus obtain titles from the PNCEE by putting together files before marketing them on a reserved market.
The Unergia website offers construction companies advice and formalization of files to obtain the famous keys and thus benefit from subsidies from the Ministry of Ecology.
This system is financed to the tune of 9 billion euros by fuel or gas distribution professionals, such as Engie, Total or EDF.
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