A renovation company from Charente-Maritime, targeted by an investigation for alleged fraud in public aid, obtained in court the restitution of more than two million euros seized in 2022, we learned on Friday from its lawyer.
This company based near La Rochelle, which remains suspected of violating the collection of MaPrimRenov’, a state bonus dedicated to energy renovation, obtained before the Poitiers Court of Appeal the restitution of almost the entire amount. entered in May 2022.
According to an extract from the decision rendered on Tuesday, which AFP was able to consult, the investigating chamber estimates that the amount of CEE bonus scams (energy savings certificates, Editor’s note) can be estimated at 101,412.51 euros ( amount of premiums received without compensation) and that only this sum must be subject to seizure.
The offending proceeds cannot be constituted by the entire turnover of the company but only by the economic advantage derived from the various offenses, add the magistrates.
The Court of Appeal therefore overturned two orders taken, at the request of the prosecution, by a judge of liberties and detention (JLD) of La Rochelle, by ordering the restitution of some 2.1 million euros to the company.
In July, the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) publicly welcomed this record seizure.
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