Suspected fraud at SeaFrance
Posted by admin | Under Uncategorized, events, life, people, world Tuesday May 11, 2010SeaFrance to court to denounce "numerous errors, deviations, differences in the accounts established in late 2009 by the auditor, appointed to audit the accounts of the company." The ferry company suspected fraud, particularly related to sales on board ships between Calais and Dover, for two years.
The prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, has opened a criminal investigation for "breach of trust", while the direction of the Company filed a complaint against X in March.
According to the spokesman SeaFrance differences accounts were "significant". According to Le Parisien, they concern "hundreds of thousands of euros".A significant shortfall for a company that has placed the supervision of the Commercial Court of Paris in mid-April to avoid bankruptcy.
This backup procedure had been launched a few days after a strike that lasted throughout the Easter weekend, and who literally "poured" the company: Blocking boats will "cost 1.25 million euros SeaFrance and can cause death of the company and all its jobs, "then had warned management of this 100% subsidiary of SNCF flexcheck cash advance.
Items returned at any cost
According to information from Parisian-Today in France, the auditor was particularly interested in returning items sold in 2008, "whose amount was 610,000 pounds, or 720,000 euros."
"It seems surprising that cigarettes, perfume or whiskey are subject to systematic customer feedback, and especially for these volumes," Le Parisien reported the briefing note written by the expert. Another oddity: there is no inventory of returned products, so it is impossible to know what these products have become.
In addition, differences in body are disturbing: the first four months of 2009, differences between the turnover and amounts in cases concerned 60% of trading volume.
Finally, discovering one of the ships of the fleet has the equivalent of a stock of thirty months of a brand of champagne, it is clear that there is something fishy.
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