The personal training account (CPF) scams that allow any active person to purchase training rights in euros are endless.
A school in Cannes-Mandelieu, which is located in the Tourrades business district, is suspected of embezzlement, we learn from the Grasse public prosecutor’s office. The institution, whose name is not yet known, would have offered foreign students bogus courses funded thanks to the CPF and would not have subsidized others. The number of students affected, the number of respondents, the amount of damage, the period and the course of the facts were not communicated for the time being.
What we do know is that a complaint was made before a judicial inquiry was launched last June and then entrusted to the gendarmes of the Grasse research brigade.
Damage estimated at 8.2 million euros
At the same time, another investigation was launched in the capital, as information from Le Monde and Le Parisien was confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. Fourteen people between the ages of 20 and 50 were suspected of being involved in two possibly related networks that had fraudulently obtained money from the Caisse des dépôts (CDC) since 2021 thanks to fictitious training companies. The estimated amount of damage would amount to 8.2 million euros.
The investigations then relate to facts that are classified as gang fraud, gang money laundering, counterfeiting and use of counterfeiting, and criminal organizations.
Until then, the money collected went mainly to accounts abroad, for example in the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Hungary, the United Kingdom or Portugal.
In all, at this stage, the judiciary has seized €1.6 million and blocked more than €500,000 paid to the CDC.