In total, more than 1.7 million euros were unjustifiably disbursed by the Services and Payments Agency, which is in charge of compensating part of the activity. He
In total, more than 1.7 million euros were unjustifiably disbursed by the Services and Payments Agency, which is in charge of compensating part of the activity.
The extension of the resort to partial unemployment during confinement has given rise to a new objective: the Paris prosecutor has announced this Friday that it will investigate a “massive” fraud in international financial flows, which would cost at least 1.7 million euros to the detriment of public finances.
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It was the discovery of “similarities between many applications for authorization of activities partially submitted by companies” that raised suspicions and initially pushed the Toulouse and Limoges flats to investigate “organized fraud for benefits paid to partially unemployed employees” and ” money laundering by an organized group” of these frauds, the Paris prosecutor said in a press release on Friday.
But given the scale of the fraud and the international ramifications revealed by the initial investigation, prosecutors seized the files on Monday. It acted within its national jurisdiction in matters of combating highly complex organized crime (called Junalco), introduced by the Judicial Reform Law of March 23, 2019.
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According to a source close to the file, the investigators suspect that “a criminal organization organized a fraud from abroad”, taking advantage of the fact that the French government has extended, from containment and compensation to the suspension of the activity that resulted, the possibility of resort to partial unemployment.
“Numerous investigations, including international financial flows of these frauds, have not yet been carried out,” says the prosecutor, noting that they would be “complex” and would require “strong international cooperation.”
What is the extent of the damage?
During the initial investigation, investigators discovered that “false requests for compensation payment are submitted via electronic submission by usurping the name and SIRET identification number of existing companies that did not apply to receive support for part of the activity,” according to the public. fiscal.
They have already identified “more than 1,740 fraudulent operations throughout the national territory, on behalf of 1,069 different companies requesting the payment of funds to more than 170 different bank accounts.” Nothing in Occitania, more than 160 companies have been identified as victims, and more than 110 bank accounts that have been falsified and destined to receive compensation, as well as 18 fraudulent transfers for about 868,000 euros.
In total, at the national level, more than 1.7 million euros were unjustifiably disbursed by the Payment Services and Operations Agency (ASP), in charge of management, on behalf of the Ministry of Employment and Partial Compensation of Activity. However, the damage could have been much greater: according to the State Attorney’s Office, “the payment of 6 million euros was suspended for the discovery of criminal acts.” Thirteen of the sixteen Regional Directorates for Business, Competition, Consumption, Labor and Employment (DIRECCTE) in the national territory face this type of fraud.
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According to the Labor Ministry, 7.2 million French people were unemployed one or more days a week in March, up from 8.7 million in April and 7.8 million in May.
In late June, former labor minister Muriel Pénicaud told Challenges magazine that 3,000 initial checks on part-time unemployment claims had led to “850 suspicions of fraud” and four cases of “fraud.”
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Some involve smaller-scale fraud: Ms Pénicaud cited the example of a business leader from Hauts-de-France who created five companies for 67 employees, but no one reported or paid social security contributions.
Update date: July 11, 2020, 09:58
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