The current boss of customs intelligence, Florian Colas, was appointed Wednesday as head of the general directorate of customs and indirect duties, according to the report of the council of ministers.
The 37-year-old finance inspector thus succeeds Isabelle Braun-Lemaire, appointed by the government in February as interministerial delegate for senior management of the State, the HR department of senior civil servants.
Since 2021, he has been national director of customs intelligence and investigations (DNRED), one of Bercy’s two intelligence services with Tracfin.
in this position for three years, Florian Colas notably (mobilized) the DNRED in the implementation of the European sanctions decided in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and (contributed) to the plan to fight against fraud and the law of July 18, 2023 aimed at giving customs the means to face new threats, underlines the Minister of the Economy and Finance in a press release.
He also initiated a technological and organizational transformation of the DNRED, entitled project Valmyand (supervised) the creation of a tax intelligence unit, it is added.
A former student of the National School of Administration, Florian Colas joined the finance inspectorate in 2013, where he carried out consulting and audit missions in the field of modernizing public policies and the fight against corruption. fraud, specifies Bercy.
He also taught economics for three years at the Sorbonne.
Advisor to Grald Darmanin when he was appointed Minister of Action and Public Accounts in 2017, Florian Colas was also between July 2020 and April 2021 the chief of staff of Olivier Dussopt, former Deputy Minister in charge of Accounts public.