He had set up a company specializing in the treatment of frames in Neuville-de-Poitou and opened a call center based in Morocco to approach future clients. The operation was well established… A little too much even for the taste of justice.
On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, she judged Cyrille Delphin, the former manager of CDH86, his right-hand man, a salesman and the legal entity of the company that has been liquidated for three years. They will all be informed of their legal fate on September 12.
Firm prison and electronic bracelet required against former manager
The prosecutor requested six months in prison to be served with an electronic bracelet against the former manager who was absent at the bar and already indicted, as well as a €40,000 fine and a two-year ban on management.
The former sales director risks six months in prison, a fine of €40,000, half of which is suspended.
The salesperson is subject to a fine of €3,000 while the company is subject to a fine of €100,000, of which €60,000 is suspended.
Nearly two hundred purchase orders sorted
The confiscation of a sum of €45,000 was requested. This sum, according to the prosecutor, is the profit made at the expense of a dozen clients during the contested formalization of work.
The company is criticized for having targeted elderly people, sometimes vulnerable, residing in old houses in its canvassing.
Telephone canvassing always began by offering a free diagnosis. It was the “carrot” to allow the salesperson or technician coming right away to sign expensive work that was often carried out the very day after signing the order form.
Numerous anomalies on purchase orders
After several complaints received in 2020 from the Neuville gendarmes’ office, an investigation was opened. The fraud repression, alerted for its part, carried out an inspection of nearly two hundred purchase orders representing €640,000 of work.
She had noted a very significant number of anomalies. The vouchers, copied from those of another company, did not comply with the legal notices.
Contestation
The courts will decide in September whether the company and its staff were guilty of taking advantage of weakness and in particular of misleading or aggressive commercial practices.
They are contested by the defendants even if, during the investigation, staff members were able to say that they had no choice in receiving their salary. “All the work we did for these people was necessary. »
