Had the co-managers of the Parthenaisian company From Floor to Ceiling taken their company for a cash cow and their clients for pigeons?…. In any case, the dissatisfaction that they had triggered by proving incapable of honoring the work ordered had earned them the honors of a call from Julien Courbet on the antenna of RTLthat is to say.
SELARL was created in 2018 on the initiative of an entrepreneur and a carpenter who met on construction sites. Started, it is said, with flying colors, the business quickly experienced cash flow difficulties, to the point that the carpenter, sensing unorthodox management methods, had sold his shares to his partner in 2019 and finally warned the gendarmes.
“They thought they were Americans”
The investigation confirmed his suspicions: customer checks cashed by the boss in his personal account, work on his private properties financed by the company while the suppliers were not paid…
If the carpenter had gained the reputation of having a hair in his hand, the boss and his wife gave the employees the impression that“They thought they were Americans”spending lavishly the store's money on their personal comfort: renovated kitchen, landscaping around a pond, but also online poker games or clairvoyance consultations…
These three found themselves before the Niort criminal court this Thursday, November 14, 2024, prosecuted in particular for misuse of corporate assets and tax fraud, for a cumulative amount of several tens of thousands of euros.
Against them, the prosecutor requested suspended prison sentences ranging from six months to two years, fines of €5,000 to €20,000, and up to fifteen years of ban on management.
For its part, the defense first requested the cancellation of the prosecution for tax fraud, on the grounds that they had been decided by the prosecution without prior referral to the tax services. The lawyers also attributed their clients' behavior to inexperience and a lack of training in taxation, emphasizing the fact that none of them had really enriched themselves personally…
Deliberated on December 12, 2024.
