At least a hundred people would have benefited from this code scam. - ALLILI MOURAD / SIPA

  • Three people were indicted Thursday, January 23 in Mulhouse following the dismantling of a traffic scam, announced the prosecution on Monday.
  • "At least a hundred people" would have benefited from this scam, "by paying 1,500 euros in exchange for the examination," said 20 minutes the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse Edwige Roux-Morizot.
  • The three people indicted this Thursday are the manager of this driving school, his father, who is the former manager, and the manager of a technical control company based in Rixheim.

No need to pass the code, just pay. Three people were indicted Thursday, January 23 in Mulhouse following the dismantling of a traffic scam, announced the prosecution on Monday.

Everything started from anonymous reports to various police services in the Haut-Rhin. "Anomalies had been noted on the profiles of a certain number of candidates for the Highway Code, in particular when they passed and passed the latter at the Franklin driving school," said 20 minutes the public prosecutor at Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot.

People who don't speak French well

"At least a hundred people" would have benefited from this scam, "by paying 1,500 euros in exchange for the examination". A "very organized scam", according to the magistrate who benefited people mostly from "cultural backgrounds" fluent in French, struggling to pass the exam, "especially people from the community of travelers" .

Either the former manager passed the exam in place of the candidates, or he sat next to them to blow their answers or asked someone close to him to do so, explains the prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot.

"At least 150,000 euros" of fraud

The three people indicted on Thursday are the manager of this driving school, his father, who is the former manager, and the manager of a technical control company based in Rixheim, which had obtained the authorization in 2016 to pass the road traffic test. "It was from this date that the scam began," said the prosecutor. Word of mouth doing its job, the applicants came from all over France to take the exam. The scam would have flourished until 2018.

The three men were indicted for organized gang fraud, active and passive bribery, complicity in active bribery and laundering of organized gang fraud. They were placed under judicial supervision. The prosecution, which had requested a ban on exercise but was not followed by the investigating judge, appealed this decision.

The amount of the fraud amounts to "at least 150,000 euros", according to the prosecutor. What will happen to the beneficiaries? "The prefecture services should cancel their driving licenses," said the magistrate.

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  • Driving school
  • Justice
  • Mulhouse
  • Fraud
  • Traffic Laws