4 people arrested for theft of 1.7 million euros in social benefits

Two men and two women, aged 32 to 40 years old, were arrested in mid-April to Murgeni, in the region of Vaslui in Romania, with the cooperation of the local pol

4 people arrested for theft of 1.7 million euros in social benefits

Two men and two women, aged 32 to 40 years old, were arrested in mid-April to Murgeni, in the region of Vaslui in Romania, with the cooperation of the local police, reveals this Thursday, The new yorker . These two men and their companions would be at the head of a clan which, in the course of the year 2017 would be mounted not less than 1200 records of compensation from the Caisse d'allocations familiales (CAF) of Valenciennes, and the social regime of independent from the North, for a total loss of 1.7 million euros. The justice seized nine properties of real estate purchased in Romania with the income from this scam. The leader of the clan, his mate and their wives have been imprisoned in the prison of Lasi in Romania pending their transfer to the French judge.

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The conspiracy alleged rose of the records of the young women who said they were self-employed entrepreneur in the area of recovery of scrap. In a second time, they said they were pregnant and receiving benefits from the CAF. Initially, individuals have used real identities, and then created false records of all parts with fake identification cards Romanian and fake birth certificates romanians amount of records on the basis of fictitious identities. The files were presented in the office by young women.

The investigators of the judicial police of Lille and the border police of Valenciennes had first identified a part of the conspiracy alleged before we find them in Strasbourg, and Forbach, where 77.000 euros of social services had already been collected via the same method. A method that would have been applied also in Germany. Two of the three suspects (two men and one woman), aged between all three of 27-year-old, were arrested in the month of October at their home. The third had been incarcerated for a case of sexual assault on a child. They went all three to the confessions before being put into consideration at Valenciennes, and then were arrested.

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Date Of Update: 11 May 2019, 00:00
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