The comings and goings of customers have not gone unnoticed. Neighbors complained. According to them, many vehicles were regularly parked in the garden of a small building on rue de la République in Audun-le-Tiche.
In June 2019, the gendarmes move and find a dozen cars parked within the grounds of the property. They meet a mechanic hard at work, a priori undeclared.
A young man is quickly identified as the manager of this makeshift garage which kept all publicity. He sublets the premises to another, older guy. Finally, a woman gravitates around this activity, unknown to the commercial and companies register. All three are of Portuguese descent. They were summoned together before the Thionville Criminal Court on Tuesday, prosecuted for concealed work and complicity.
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And the tax slate…
The woman repeats at the bar that she has only done a service to her husband, manager of the garage. She went to look for car parts to help him out, she received transfers to his bank account because he had none. And if she took out a consumer loan, it’s only for her personal expenses, not to finance the machines in the garage. Her 35-year-old husband prefers to remain silent.
The 60-year-old man who sublet the premises, he invented a status of Luxembourg autoentrepreneur which would have allowed him to fix up his friends’ cars. He would have started in 2017, persuaded to be in his right, to compensate for his low morale. The 30-year-old would have joined him at the end of 2018. The lawyer for the latter also incriminates the oldest: he accuses him of having received the money and of having orchestrated the maneuver.
The criminal court makes no difference and condemns each of the two men, unknown to the courts, to a fine of 5,000 euros, including 2,500 euros suspended. The young woman, prosecuted for complicity, is released. Urssaf will have to precisely quantify its damage before the hearing which will rule on the tax amounts to be reimbursed to it, in May.
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