• In Toulouse, too many candidates passed the Highway Code exam with flying colors without speaking a word of French.

  • They actually bought the sesame from a network that extracted up to 1,500 euros from them.

  • Instigators or alleged accomplices of this fraud, ten people were indicted last week in the Pink City.

Candidates “not understanding French at the time of the practical driving license exam, when they had brilliantly passed the theoretical exam”.

It is the resurgence of this type of profile that has alerted State services in Haute-Garonne during 2021. The opening of an investigation in Toulouse, then, given "the extent of the presumed fraud, that of a judicial investigation led by an examining magistrate, resulted on November 22 in the arrest of a dozen people, indicates this Thursday the prefecture.

The investigations, jointly carried out by specialized gendarmes and the Border Police (PAF), started with a Toulouse driving school instructor, therefore suspected of allowing "his customers, against the payment of several hundred euros, to obtain the Highway Code without taking the exam".

A Parisian construction entrepreneur

Then, the investigators unrolled the ball to alleged accomplices, in particular to a construction contractor of Turkish nationality, installed in Val-d'Oise.

The latter "coordinated from his home a very structured network of touts, particularly in Toulouse and Dole (Jura), allowing him to centralize many requests from people ready to pay 1,500 euros to obtain the Highway Code without submitting to the official exam.

He then turned to managers of examination centers who validated this type of approach and provided the certificates of success in the examination, ”specifies the prefecture.



The ten defendants - six French and four Turks - were all presented to the investigating judge and indicted for "for assistance with illegal residence, aggravated money laundering, forgery, use of forgery and fraudulent obtaining of administrative documents".

Six of them were placed under judicial supervision and four in pre-trial detention.

In addition to compromising documents, the searches carried out as part of this crackdown led to the seizure of 25,000 euros in cash and nearly 10,000 euros in bank accounts, not to mention jewelry and two vehicles, including a sedan estimated at 38,000 euros.

The driving schools involved in this affair will obviously lose their approval.

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