A former treasurer of Kiabi suspected of having embezzled 100 million euros

His arrest is worthy of a film. On August 12, a woman was arrested in Figari, Corsica, while she was getting off… a private jet. The reason? The almost forty-year-old (39 years old) is suspected of being at the origin of a major embezzlement, reports France Info.

The sum is impressive: 100 million euros. And the victim is known since it concerns the ready-to-wear company Kiabi, where the person concerned worked as an accountant. She was precisely “treasury leader” when, in July 2023, she placed this famous money in a bank abroad on behalf of Kiabi. A year later, the company tried to recover the sum but… it was no longer there.

A complaint was filed and investigators from the central office for major financial crimes found the ex-employee, now based in Miami. She founded an interior design firm there and parades on social networks. It was by following her thanks to her publications that the police located and then arrested her with more than 500,000 euros of jewelry and luxury items.

“Fraud and money laundering”

The person concerned has since been indicted by an investigating judge for “organized gang fraud and money laundering”. She was placed in pre-trial detention and should therefore be tried soon. This will not be her first time in court: before these specific facts, she had already been convicted. She had received a two-year suspended prison sentence for fraud with another company. The sum was slightly lower: almost 800,000 euros.

For his part, Kiabi indicated to France Info do everything “in order to obtain recovery of the fraud”. This “in no way calls into question (its) financial solidity and has no impact on the maintenance of (its) annual trajectory”.

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