Var: a business leader tried for having defrauded social security of more than two million euros

A business manager from Var, responsible for a taxi company , is being tried at the Draguignan criminal court for fraud, this Tuesday, February 25. Véronique B., a fifty-year-old from Néoules, is accused of having billed non-existent medical transport to various primary health insurance funds (CPAM).

Between 2019 and 2024, the business leader would have received 2.3 million euros, estimates the Brignoles research brigade, which discovered the scheme. The defendant, since placed under judicial supervision, is suspected of having created false declarations of patient transport, which the CPAM then settled on her bank accounts.

1.3 million euros were allegedly swindled from the Roubaix-Tourcoing CPAM in the North, 282,000 euros in the Var and 256,000 from the Puy-de-Dôme CPAM. It was in this last department that the driver aroused suspicion, due to regular journeys for a single patient from Puy-de-Dôme to a Marseille healthcare facility.

Investigators also believe that a vast money laundering system was used using several schemes including the acquisition of a gym in La Farlède, the cash purchase of apartments in his daughter's name and the sending of money to multiple bank accounts, some of which were abroad.

A total of 1.3 million euros was seized during the investigation.

The trial could be postponed, the defendant's lawyer has requested an adjournment of the hearing.