An agent of the financial service of the departmental council of Bouches-du-Rhône was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended and 3,000 euros fine by the criminal court of Marseille. The man, aged about forty, engaged in several contraband trades. He sold at bargain prices “goods that fell from the truck”, indicated Provence. Mainly cartons of cigarettes but also bottles of whiskey and Corsican charcuterie.
At the helm, the agent indicated that it was “for friends” and admitted that he had been selling around fifteen cartridges a week for “three months”. The man was reported. The police, who were watching him, caught him in the act, in the middle of the week. That day, he had sold an appointment with a delivery man, who had come to drop off 962 cartons of cigarettes, 56 bottles of whiskey and several tens of kilos of coppa and figatelli.
The delivery man was sentenced to sixteen months in prison.