The government will present a bill in the fall in particular to combat public aid fraud, announced Thomas Cazenave, Minister for Public Accounts, EchoesThursday 2nd of May.
A year after the presentation of the “anti-fraud” plan of Gabriel Attal, then Minister of Public Accounts, his successor praises its results but mentions “two blind spots to cover” : public aid fraud and the low effective recovery rate, that is to say the money really recovered by the State after the embezzlement.
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MaPrimeRenov’, this system allowing you to obtain aid for energy renovations, is in Bercy’s sights, as mentioned by Thomas Cazenave. “ On MaPrimeRénov’, I received reports for around 400 million euros”he told the Echoes, knowing that the budget for this system is between 2 billion and 3 billion euros per year. The ministry also intends to scrutinize the personal training account (CPF), learning aids and even energy saving certificates. This aid represents around 100 million euros of public funds, according to The echoes.
Increase in recoveries
The measures which could be announced this autumn would notably make it possible to more easily and temporarily suspend the payment of aid following a report from Tracfin, the intelligence service of the Ministry of the Economy. A tightening of controls linked to the possession of cryptoassets (such as bitcoin) could also be on the agenda. “ The European Central Bank (ECB) estimates that 5 million French people use cryptoassets and there are only 150,000 declarations to the general directorate of public finances.declared the minister.
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The objective is also to increase the recovery rate, that is to say the actual receipts of money from fraud into public coffers. The minister announced that this fall’s project would include a stricter procedure for universal transfers of assets, a mechanism allowing the dissolution of a company without liquidation, which, according to the government, allows companies that have not paid their must disappear before any control is triggered.
Thomas Cazenave says he plans to legalize the seizure of the assets of people held in police custody, in order to ensure that fixed criminal fines, to which drug traffickers are subject, for example, are effectively paid.
