Private consultants of the company had access to data covered by fiscal secrecy within the framework of a computer project, arousing turmoil within the administration.
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The feeling of accomplished duty, Boris G. part in leave. His algorithm spotted possible VAT fraud concerning two private jets Falcon 7X, for which the importer would have failed to pay several million euros when they are delivered to French territory. This is excellent news for its employer, French customs, which bet on artificial intelligence to target import fraud, by setting up, a few months earlier, a “risk analysis and targeting service “(Sarc). Its mission: to cross databases to detect, thanks to sophisticated algorithms, statistical anomalies leading to possible irregularities.
A detail, however, surprises in the signing of the email that Boris G. sends, on July 27, 2017, to share his results: this specialist in artificial intelligence, who works on ultra -sensible data covered by tax secrecy, is not a customs official, but a private consultant from Capgemini.
Despite the risks, the sarc has indeed outdated part of its automatic detection project for fraud to the French IT council giant, in 2017 and 2018. According to the elements collected by Le Monde, the project consisted of Setting up a “data well” bringing together several files from customs and tax administration, on which private consultants could then connect to conduct their analyzes. On this IT server included data on all the goods crossing French borders, including sensitive goods such as war material. But also very precise information on the control operations carried out by customs.
“of the state prerogatives of the State”
Have some of these data be extracted from customs servers by unscrupulous Capgemini consultants? A document suggests in any case that no safeguard was provided, since a consultant was able to make a copy on her computer of part of the Banaco file, which contains information as precise as the name of the company controlled by customs and the result of the control. Now, the decree of declaration of this File is clear: it should only be accessible to customs officials.
Le Monde also learned that the director of the Sarc, Perry Menz, had informed several Capgemini consultants that the importer of the Falcon 7x jets identified by their algorithm was already in the viewfinder of the National Directorate of Intelligence and Investigations customs (DNRED). Ultraconfidential information, since the targeted company, Dassault Aviation, was not aware of itself itself. This imprudence surprises all the more since Dassault Aviation was also at the time Sogeti client , A subsidiary of Capgemini.
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