The decree creating a National Anti-Fraud Office, which is scheduled to come into force on May 1, was published Wednesday in the Official Journal.
This decree is published as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts Thomas Cazenave are due to present the results of the Bercy anti-fraud plan on Wednesday.
Last May, the government presented its plan to combat tax fraud, which notably provided for the current Judicial Financial Investigation Service (SEJF) to become the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), with the doubling of the number of its judicial tax officers.
A national competence service called National Anti-Fraud Office attached jointly to the director general of customs and indirect rights and to the director general of public finances, according to the government decree dated March 18 and published Wednesday in the Official Journal.
This decree specifies that the departments and services of customs and indirect rights and public finances are associated with the activities of the office, as are the administrations and services over which the minister responsible for the budget exercises, alone or jointly with the other interested ministers. , his authority.
Also participating in its activities, as necessary, are the general direction of the national police and the general direction of the national gendarmerie, the text adds. This Office will also participate in interministerial coordination in the fight against public finance fraud entrusted to the interministerial anti-fraud coordination mission.
A separate order indicates that the ONAF will include ten territorial units, with headquarters in Bordeaux, Fort-de-France, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Nantes, Paris and Toulouse. Two territorial units are located in Paris, it is specified.