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C. Allain / 20 Minutes
Very ill-gotten… Last Thursday, a couple of northerners suspected of breach of trust and fraud was arrested.
The defendants are accused of having embezzled a large sum of money from the account of the company that employed the couple's wife, we learned from the police on Tuesday.
The facts took place in November.
The CEO of a company, whose name has not been specified, received a disturbing call from his bank.
He was told that between June 10 and October 20, seven transfers from three company accounts were made for an amount of more than 500,000 euros to an external account.
The account in question had been opened in the name of a man whose partner works in the cheated company.
A car for 40,000 euros bought in cash
Greedy, the couple would not have stopped there.
During November, the employee returned to the office while she was on sick leave under the pretext of retrieving documents to work from home.
She would have taken the opportunity to steal bank statements and transfer orders.
The investigation opened after the complaint of the director of the company put an end to the very lucrative game of the suspects.
The couple were arrested at their home last Thursday in the early morning hours.
During the searches, the police discovered a large amount of cash as well as multimedia objects.
Everything was seized.
The account to which the embezzled money had been transferred was blocked.
The investigators were also able to cancel the cash purchase by the couple of a Citroën DS7 Crossback, a vehicle with a starting price of 40,000 euros.
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