Warehouse worker of a subcontractor of the Gravelines power station in the North, the man was heard in the Boulogne court for having stolen EC money for personal purposes.
“I was in financial trouble. I gave in to temptation,” summarizes the secretary of the CFDT works council in office since 2013 to explain his action. Salary at 1400 euros per month, the man admitted to having closed himself in a trap and in an infernal mechanism according to reports The voice of the North.
No employee has been wronged on holiday vouchers, but to repay a co-worker she wrote out company checks and cashed the next check into her own account. A cavalry system that drove the shopkeeper right into the wall.
47,000 euros in damages
The fraud was discovered when the CGT recovered the EC. Absence of accounting books, no control by the top management of the company, the union has therefore launched an investigation. After the investigation, more than 47,000 euros would have been stolen.
If the fraudster “began to pay back”, the judges sentenced him to one year in suspended prison, a refund of 31,000 euros to the works council and a ban from exercising the function of treasurer in an association for three years.
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