Three men are suspected of having set up a fictitious VTC company (Photo illustration).
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NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
Apparently, their company had everything a real one: three men at the head of a VTC company with nearly 150 drivers were arrested on Wednesday,
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They are suspected of covert work, laundering, tax evasion and abuse of social property ... for an amount that makes you dizzy: more than 1.6 million euros.
They will appear in December, specifies the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
The three defendants, aged 23 to 27, are suspected of having set up a fictitious VTC company, operating mainly around Orly airport.
If the drivers were paid, they were not declared and their employers therefore did not pay any social security contributions.
If during the search of their respective homes, in Seine-Saint-Denis, the investigators of the passenger transport control unit which carried out the investigations supported by the intervention brigade discovered "only" 4,000 euros in cash, more than 450,000 euros were found in the accounts of the respondents.
According to a police source, the president of the company also used the funds of the company for personal purposes to the tune of 790,000 euros.
Already huge amounts to which is added the damage to Urssaf estimated at several hundred thousand euros.
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