the gendarmes discover 60,000 euros of damaged objects at a Lidl employee
A Lidl employee and her companion had transformed their home into a department store branch with reformed objects that they sold on the internet
Employed on the giant warehouse site of the Lidl group, in Baziège, near Toulouse, an employee diverted thousands of objects bearing defects and declared unsaleable, before reselling them on the web for her profit.
Alerted by the managers of the Lidl site who had noticed that the storage bins of the retocked products emptied unexpectedly, the gendarmes of Montgiscard, in Haute-Garonne, quickly discovered the reasons for this mysterious evaporation, says the daily La Dépêche this Monday.
The employee of the storage platform which supplies the 80 brands of the group in the great south-west, has been identified and a search of her home has made it possible to find more than 3,000 products, ranging from household appliances to tools in going through food. Hundreds of boxes which occupied all the living space and whose value approaches 60,000 euros, according to the gendarmes.
The woman and her companion, also implicated, recognized the traffic in police custody and confessed to reselling the items on the internet to supplement their salary. They were presented to the prosecution, which decided to detain them in court in March during a plea-guilty hearing.