“There is sometimes a link between the diversion of public aid and great banditry,” observes the elected official, Friday on Franceinfo. The government wants to accentuate its efforts in the face of social, tax and customs fraud.
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“Efforts are paying, even if there is still work”, Reacts Thomas Cazenave, deputy EPR of Gironde, former minister responsible for public accounts, on Franceinfo Friday March 14, while Bercy announces 20 billion fraud detected in 2024. The elected official explains this record figure in several ways: “It is both because we have put more workforce and means in the services dedicated to the fight against tax control, and it is also because it has allowed the controllers to have more power.”
The government wants to accentuate its efforts in the face of social, tax and customs fraud. It aims to go from 20 billion euros detected in 2024 to 40 billion within four years. For this, the National Assembly unanimously adopted a law against all fraud to public aid, carried by Thomas Cazenave. According to him, several billion euros in public aid is diverted each year.
“The State pays about 20 billion euros per year of aid to renovate your accommodation, to change vehicles, to train or to recruit apprentices”explains the deputy EPR of Gironde. “In 2023, Bercy had identified more than 400 million euros in suspicion statements only for Maprimerénov, that is to say doubts about the use of this money”continues the deputy EPR of Gironde.
“We probably have several billion euros that escape a good use of public money.”
Thomas Cazenave, EPR deputy from Girondeon franceinfo
The law against all fraud to public aid provides for “Suspend the payment of aid as soon as there is a doubt”explains Thomas Cazenave. Moreover, “Administrations can now exchange data and then we have increased sanctions and prohibits commercial canvassing on these helped devices”. “It is rarely individual individuals who divert public aidestimates Thomas Cazenave. They are often criminal networks. There is sometimes a link between the diversion of public aid and great banditry. These are organized companies. They are they must fight “specifies the deputy EPR of Gironde.
