The Senate approved this Thursday unanimously and definitively a bill already voted in the National Assembly to prohibit the commercial recruitment of a holder of a personal training account (CPF), with the hope of drying up the flow of solicitations that suffer individuals.
This bill “will give us effective levers to better prevent, combat and punish abuses and fraud in the CPF,” he celebrated, specifying that the text will allow “prohibiting abusive scrutiny and more effectively punishing those who practice it, even in the online social networks.
The minister recalled that any non-compliance would be punished with a fine of up to “75,000 euros for a natural person” and “375,000 euros for a legal person”.
For its final approval by Parliament, the text voted by the Senate, with a majority to the right, had to be identical to the one adopted in the National Assembly, at the initiative of the MoDem group of deputies.
More than 43 million euros in fraud
The senators thus rejected the amendments put forward by environmentalist Mélanie Vogel, who wanted in particular to extend the ban on “non-consensual commercial prospecting to all commercial prospecting areas, not just the CPF.”
The rapporteur for the Social Affairs Committee, Martin Lévrier, urged the elected officials not to modify the text “so as not to delay the entry into force of this useful and long-awaited text.”
The CPF, which has existed since January 1, 2019, allows any active person to acquire training rights in euros and no longer in hours, through an online platform. It is the Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC) that directly remunerates training companies, sometimes empty shells that seek to divert public money.
In almost three years, five million people have been trained at a total cost of seven billion euros, according to the CDC.
Fraud increased sharply in 2021, Tracfin, Bercy’s financial intelligence unit, detailed in July. The transmitted suspicion reports amounted to 116, compared to only 10 in 2020. This represents suspected fraud of 43.2 million euros, compared to 7.8 million a year earlier.
Source: BFM TV
