A Gefco warehouse near Berlin, Germany (illustration).

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  • The CEO of Gefco, Luc Nadal, was indicted as head of his company.

    She is suspected of having benefited from an illegal “employee loan” system by foreign companies.

  • Clearly, Polish and Slovak companies provided drivers who were in transit "in unworthy conditions".

    The goal ?

    Avoid paying social contributions.

  • The Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, praised the action of the Dreal and "welcomed the update of this presumption of large-scale fraud".

Here is a case which the French transporter Gefco would have gone well.

The company is suspected of having benefited from an illegal “employee loan” system by foreign companies.

Its CEO, Luc Nadal, was indicted in Vesoul as legally responsible, we learned Monday from the prosecution.

The leader is the tenth person indicted in the framework of this investigation for "hidden work" and "recourse in an organized group in the service of a person carrying out hidden work", entrusted to the Central Office for the fight against illegal work (OCLTI).

Four other executives already indicted

He was also personally "placed under the status of assisted witness" Friday evening at the end of his police custody, "because he produced documents showing that he had delegated power to other leaders" , said the prosecutor of the Republic of Vesoul, Emmanuel Dupic.

Four other Gefco executives responsible for sites based in Haute-Saône and Alsace have already been indicted on March 20 and placed under judicial supervision.

The day before, five first suspects had been indicted among which were three executives of another company based in Alsace.

They are suspected of having created two companies in Slovakia and two in Poland, which allegedly supplied foreign truck drivers to Gefco illegally.

Two officials of these foreign companies are also being prosecuted.

The French transporter Gefco, European leader in automotive logistics (15,000 employees in 47 countries) is suspected of having benefited from an illegal system of “employee loans” by these Polish and Slovak companies.

The gendarmes thus discovered 35 drivers who were passing “in unworthy conditions” on a logistics base in Quincey (Haute-Saône), according to Emmanuel Dupic.

A loss of 800,000 euros for Urssaf

For business leaders, the objective was to escape the payment of their social contributions in France "for a loss estimated by Urssaf at 800,000 euros between 2015 and 2018", added the magistrate.

In a press release, the FO-Uncp union of the logistics group said it was "disgusted by the very serious situation within Gefco".

He asks the management to "commit to banishing slavery from the company Gefco" and "to act quickly to put an end to such acts", while the company, legally represented by its CEO, Luc Nadal, is put in question.

"We do not think that this is a trick to escape the payment of social contributions in France, because that would mean that all the management teams of Gefco are rotten", continues the union.

The Minister of Transport is delighted with this procedure

The investigation, launched in 2017 after an inspection by the Dreal (Regional Directorate for the Environment, Planning and Housing) of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, led to the discovery of this presumed international sector of fraud. employment of truck drivers.

The Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, praised the action of the Dreal and "welcomed the update of this presumption of large-scale fraud".

"Social and competitive conditions in road transport are priority issues to guarantee the opening of the internal market and better working conditions for drivers", underlined the Minister.

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