A man suspected of partial unemployment fraud imprisoned in Marseille

A police car in Marseille.

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Partial unemployment fraud.

A man suspected of false declarations of short-time working, has been indicted and imprisoned, as part of the fight against fraud in aid devices linked to Covid, according to the Marseille prosecutor's office.

The profits were sometimes transferred abroad.

This scheme "of fraud concerns requests for fraudulent partial activity allowances, made on the basis of either false declarations, fictitious companies or even the usurpation of the identities of real managers of companies", wrote in a press release, Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens.

Several tens of thousands of euros seized

This man is notably accused of "having received state aid (...) allowing him to generate significant profits transferred to accounts in France, and in two European countries," he said. she adds.

Criminal seizures of several tens of thousands of euros were made in this case.

A vehicle was also seized by investigators from the Marseille research section who worked with Tracfin's services (intelligence processing and action against clandestine financial circuits).

A judicial investigation for "fraud and money laundering in an organized gang" was opened Tuesday at the end of the man's custody.

These facts are punished by ten years' imprisonment and a fine of one million euros, the prosecutor said.

Several similar inquiries are underway.

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