A northern entrepreneur, accused of invoicing thousands of euros in public funds for ghost sessions, appeared on Tuesday before the criminal court. The prosecutor requested a fine of 300,000 euros and thirty months in prison, including six farm.
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“There are start-ups that invent incredible technologies that allow them to explode their turnover in a few months. But not in office training”, quips the public prosecutor, Mehdi Benbouzid, in His indictment before the Criminal Court of Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), Tuesday June 21.
And this is what attracted suspicions of the anti-smashing cell of the Ministry of Finance, Tracfin: How Happy-Form, a small unprepersonal training company, launched in early 2020, has managed to achieve more than 3 million euros in turnover in just a few months of existence?
Sitting straight on her bench in her red jacket, Aurore M., creator and manager of the company, has little to do with Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. This blonde forty -year -old with manicured nails of Rose nevertheless found a martingale, which allowed him to pay himself in two years more than 300,000 euros in dividends on the back of the personal training credit (CPF). Since 2019, this contribution paid by companies has been free of charge of the employee, who can freely finance training of his choice, via a platform managed by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC). A virtuous principle, but which opened the appetite of the hundreds of crooks eager to capture this windfall; Large – which floods of SMS or untimely calls from millions of employees – to the smallest.
Aurore M. is part of the second category. She herself a former employee of training institutes, she embarked on the adventure by creating her company in early 2020. Due to confinement, she pleads, she chooses a particular method: her training in office automation (Word , Excel, PowerPoint), that it charges several thousand euros to the CDC, are provided in the form of a simple USB key containing courses and exercises, sent to the homes of its trainees. Cost cost: 193 euros for the training kit, purchased turnkey from specialized companies, plus 6.90 euros for the key, sums up Me Georges Holleaux, the lawyer for the CDC, civil party.
“You sell 1,800 euros for training, but concretely, what are you doing? Do you do the supports, the courses? No, you give a USB key”, castigates the prosecutor.
The business headache struggles to answer. Just as she has the greatest difficulty in justifying the other recipe that has ensured the success of her small business with employees. In exchange for subscription to one of his training, they receive gifts: computers, tablets, smartphones … “I wanted to provide them with training support”, she tries, explaining that, health crisis helping, She finds it difficult to get this computer equipment.
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