They resold for exorbitant prices fake auto-entrepreneur licenses to undocumented Algerians so that they can register on “Uber” type delivery platforms. The prefecture of the Occitanie region announced on Friday the dismantling of a network “of assistance for illegal residence and the supply of false documents” by the Border Police (FAP) of Toulouse, under the authority of the Montauban public prosecutor’s office.
Seven people, including a woman, were arrested in the Toulouse region on January 30. And since then, four of them, including the two brothers behind the traffic, have been sentenced in immediate appearance in Montauban to sentences ranging from 36 to 18 months in prison.
235,000 euros of “turnover”
The two brothers undertook to obtain auto-entrepreneur licenses from the commercial courts by producing falsified copies of residence permits or false invoices from energy suppliers. They then sold them for “several hundred euros” to illegal immigrants brought down by their accomplices.
The investigation made it possible to get hold of 320 fraudulent licenses and to estimate the gains made in 2022 by this network of profiteers of misery at 235,000 euros.