Five people have been indicted as part of an open investigation for aggravated fraud in the personal training account and aggravated money laundering, said the Marseille prosecutor's office in a press release on Friday.
The main suspect, 41 years old and from Marseille, was placed in pre-trial detention at the end of his police custody.
The other four people were placed under judicial supervision.
A loss of two million euros
The mechanism of the fraud was based on the creation of an association registered with the prefecture as a training body.
"This structure then approached people with a personal training account in credit by offering them fictitious training, in return for a transfer of part of their account in the form of a transfer", explains the Marseille prosecutor, Dominique Laurens.
The damage is estimated at nearly two million euros, reinjected into real estate purchases or transferred to accounts abroad.
The association had finally been dissolved with a transmission of assets for the benefit of a company residing in Hong Kong.
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