she embezzles €16,500 from the Covid-19 solidarity fund
A mysterious stranger would be at the origin of the facts. In Toulouse, a 41-year-old woman was heard for acts offraud. In question: a complaint issued by the Regional Directorate of Public Finances of Occitanie for are unduly charged the Covid-19 solidarity fund, set up to support companies impacted by the health crisis. The total amount is 16.500 €. Heard freely this Wednesday, March 23, she acknowledged the facts.
The case begins during the first confinement. A man she did not know comes to the home of the forties, already known to the police for other facts. “Well dressed, with a briefcase, he would have asked her if she was well holder of a company“, specifies a police source to The Independent Opinion. What this woman would have answered in the affirmative, adding however that this company was closed for several years. The mysterious stranger would have assured her that she could receive money, would have taken information, before to vanish never to return.
The mysterious stranger is nowhere to be found
Subsequently, the Toulousaine would have received on her account”four transfers of €1,500i.e. €6,000, and a final transfer of €10,500“, indicates a police source. Banking operations which would not have alerted her, since she spent all the money. A few months later, the Regional Directorate of Public Finance claimed the sums unduly received from her, but she was unable to reimburse them. At the beginning of last March, the respondent approached the tax body all the same in order to set up a repayment plan.
Nevertheless, given the explanation provided and the acknowledgment of the alleged facts, a complaint was filed and the 41-year-old woman is convened on September 12 in the court of Toulouse within the framework of a comparison on preliminary recognition of credit. The man who allegedly set up the scheme, meanwhile, could not be identified…
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