Two Darty île-De-France employees, as well as this subsidiary as a legal entity, were accused on Wednesday the FNAC Darty group, after Mediapart’s information in relation to the alleged washing facts in organized gangs. In 2021, five people, including four Darty store directors, had already been accused in this archive for “washing of crimes committed in an organized gang”, due to the suspicions of illegal liquid transactions at points of sale of the Paris region.
On Tuesday night, Mediapart reported “the accusation on June 11 of the group as a legal person for alleged acts of washing in organized gangs committed between January 1, 2016 and December 30, 2020”, as well as that of “two senior executives of the group.” It indicates that the company “Etabablissements Darty et Fils was also placed under the state of witnesses assisted by alleged facts of association of criminals and washing in organized gangs”.
The media say that in “many dart stores in the Paris region”, a “vast illegal payment system had been established in cash”, with “hundreds of illegal transactions made, for an amount of more than 1.5 million euros paid in cash”, while in France, since 2016, the cash payment of an individual to a professional or among professionals of organized crime.
“An investigation has been underway since 2021”
In a reaction transmitted to AFP on Wednesday, the Darty Fnac group emphasizes that “research continues” and says “take note of the new stages of the procedure with accusations, particularly partial, and a state of testimony assisted by Darty île-de-France in certain facts, and remember that it is not the possession of a trial or a conviction.”
The group “confirms that it has been underway since 2021 after irregularities observed in a limited number of stores in one of its subsidiaries, Darth île-de-France”, and that “the management of the group has carried out these actions of which the attention of the Public Prosecutor of Paris is considered in January 2021 and filed a complaint.” “
“Since then, the group’s management has ordered the PWC company that it has carried out a deep work to guarantee the robustness of its procedures, and has strengthened its internal audit teams,” it is indicated.
The group declares “to remain serene and confident in the work done by justice and in the result of this investigation, and continues to collaborate with the judicial authorities.”
Source: BFM TV
