Four people, including two police officers and an insurer, were taken into custody on Monday as part of an investigation into the sale of data from police files, we learned from the gendarmerie and a source familiar with the matter.
Three suspects were arrested in Hauts-de-France and one in Ile-de-France, the gendarmerie said. They are suspected of having sold confidential information from files used in particular by the police, said a source familiar with the matter.
Several precedents of similar facts
The two police officers were stationed in Hauts-de-France, and the insurer was arrested in Ile-de-France. The fourth suspect, suspected of having participated in the sale of this personal data, was arrested in Lille.
Already last June, two police officers had been indicted in an investigation into the sale, via encrypted messaging, of data from police files including the Processing of Criminal Records (Taj) and the File of Wanted Persons (RPF) .
A former French intelligence agent had also been talked about in 2021, for having sold a large amount of information thanks to his access to protected data. Aged 35, he was estimated to have drawn around 30,000 euros, and was sentenced in November 2021 to five years in prison on appeal.