By Coulommiers editorial staff
Published on 26 Feb 21 at 20:24
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The three investigators from the USES, the unit dedicated to narcotics and the underground economy at the police station of Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), will have worked two months, drawn up 544 minutes and sent 1,200 sheets to the prosecution. It is that they have just completed a beautiful affair mixing pimping and money laundering. All this in one massage parlor installed in Coulommiers, called Le Soleil d’Or until 1is last December, since renamed Phoénix.
The police had serious suspicions about this establishment. To support them they will have made audio and video recordings, shadowing and going through bank accounts. This is how a second fraudulent salon, run by the same operators, was discovered at Saint-Maurice (Val de Marne). Result, six people were arrested this Tuesday February 23 in the Paris region: in Coulommiers, Créteil (Val-de-Marne), Aubervilliers and Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Around 130,000 euros seized
The searches carried out in the two salons turned out to be in vain. On the other hand, searches carried out at homes revealed an activity related to money laundering: 26,150 euros in cash, three watches and a luxury bag, a diamond worth 5,000 euros, eleven cell phones, six computers, two vehicles… for of people who said they were paid the minimum wage.
–The prices for “massages” varied between 80 and 150 euros. Several invoices were paid in cash and, on top of that, the Regional Intervention Group (Gir), which tracks crimes related to underground economy networks, added to the file 105,000 euros in bank foreclosures.
Two women performed these services in particular, they are in their forties. The six people arrested were referred this Friday, February 26 to the Meaux prosecutor’s office. They are prosecuted for procuring and money laundering for five of them (the Columérien escapes this charge). Three are placed in pre-trial detention, the other three under judicial supervision.
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