According to a source close to the investigation, these searches aim to “carry out checks” in the investigation opened, after a report of the government sent in March to the Nanterre prosecution, following the publication of the book “The Graves “by Victor Castanet.
Le Monde with AFP
Searches were underway on Wednesday, June 8, at headquarters and in the regional departments of the private group of Ehpad Orpea, as part of the investigation opened in April on suspicions of institutional mistreatment and financial offenses, A learned the agency France-Presse (AFP) of concordant sources.
A dozen gendarmes from the Versailles research section and the Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health damage (OCLAESS) entered the company’s headquarters in Puteaux (Hauts- de-Seine) at the beginning of the morning, noted an AFP journalist.
The management of Orpea confirmed that a search was “in progress” at the headquarters and in its regional departments. In the wake of this announcement, the title Orpea fell by more than 5 % on the Paris Stock Exchange.
According to a source close to the investigation, these searches aim to “carry out checks” in the investigation opened after a report of the government sent in March to the Nanterre prosecution, following the publication of the book Les Fossoyeurs de Victor Castanet. This survey was attached to other investigations, launched in February, for “false and use of false and offense on labor law by abusively useing fixed -term contracts”. Solicited by AFP, the Nanterre prosecution did not wish to communicate immediately.
Les Fossoyeurs accuses orpea of serious breaches in the management of its accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (EHPAD), which the group refutes.