Toulouse. He embezzles the Covid-19 solidarity fund: the fraud amounts to 17,000 euros
By Quentin Marais
Published on
The Covid-19 Solidarity Fund gave him ideas, but the sanction ended up falling. A Toulousea 25-year-old entrepreneur defrauded, to the tune of €17,000 all the same, during the year 2021. Before the Public Finances notice its little game.
A complaint from public finance
This Thursday, March 17, 2022, the first containment activated to fight against the coronavirus pandemic celebrates its second anniversary. Since then, curfews, gauges or even sanitary passes have emerged… but not only.
A solidarity fund has been set up to support French companies affected by the crisis. But it gave rise to fraud. The Toulouse police station was notified on March 9, 2022, when the Regional Directorate of Public Finances filed a complaint.
With the help of an accomplice
In focus: a 25 year old man. Summoned to the police station on March 16, 2022, he admits, facing the investigators, to have defrauded.
” He was covered in debt”explains a police source to Toulouse news. “By searching the Internet, he found an individual who offered to finance, namely 2,000 euros, to produce all the necessary documents for him so that he receives 17,000 euros. »
Loan to repay
Once the documents were ready and the money arrived in his account, the fraudster therefore ” paid the individual by bank transfer, and kept 15,000 euros“. Before the investigators, the culprit said he was “ready to repay, but gradually, because he did not have a lot of money”. He will have to explain himself to the judge, as part of a comparison on the prior recognition of the debt.
Was this article helpful to you? Note that you can follow Actu Toulouse in the My Actu space. In one click, after registration, you will find all the news of your favorite cities and brands.