a company receives three million euros with false training, an arrest
This is a new form of personal training account (CPF) scam. On April 27, a businesswoman from Pas-de-Calais was arrested, we learned on Wednesday. His company specializing in computer and office automation training is suspected of having collected in 2020 and 2021 more than three million euros by offering false training.
Gifts offered to registered employees
The company in question was created at the end of 2019. It then embarked on the training of employees within the framework of the CPF. Training in IT and office automation is therefore offered without it ever taking place., “with rare exceptions”specifies the public prosecutor of Saint-Omer.
To allow employees to be trained, the company sets up a system of sponsorship and gifts such as mobile phones, tablets and sometimes even laptops. In return, they just need to sign an attendance sheet for a training that does not exist. “Attracted by these gifts, the employees would have made possible the vast scam carried out by the training company”, explains the prosecutor.
Judgment in June
For two years, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC), which is in charge of remunerating the training companies, finances this company for an amount greater than three million euros. The leader should personally receive more than 300,000 euros thanks to this scam. Seizures of up to 700,000 euros have been made “in the assets of the company and in the personal assets of the manager”, prosecute the prosecutor.
The legal person as well as the leader will be judged on June 21 before the court of Saint-Omer. The leader faces five years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros.