An agent of the Hautes-Alpes prefecture suspected of major fraud

Did he get his hands caught in the jam jar?

The Gap prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into suspicions of "significant fraud likely to have been committed by an agent of the prefecture", learned

from the prosecutor of the Hautes-Alpes, confirming information from 

.

The fraud consisted in subtracting the tax which must be paid by the purchaser of a vehicle during a change of registration by deferring the registration of gray cards.

This investigation was opened following "a report", that is to say that the actions of the individual were reported to justice by another official.

The search of the office and home of the accused agent resulted in the seizure of a thousand documents.

He was laid off.

The investigation entrusted to the division of the fight against financial crime of the zonal direction of the judicial police of Marseille was opened on two counts for which the sentences envisaged are respectively 3 years of imprisonment and 7 years of imprisonment, and a fine of 100,000 euros.

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• Fraud

• Registration

• Tax

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• Officials