2024-09-27 14:32:57
Former Kiabi treasurer suspected
According to France Info, it was a former treasurer of the low-cost clothing brand who was arrested on August 12 by the judicial police when she left a private jet on the runway of Figari airport, in Corsica. -from the South. This 39-year-old woman, who has been living in Florida for several months to work in the luxury sector, has been placed in pre-trial detention, the media reports.
At the end of police custody, Kiabi’s former collaborator was brought back to Paris, where an investigating judge indicted her for “fraud and organized gang money laundering”. Investigators cannot imagine that she could have acted alone in this affair, the radio indicates.
How did the brand discover the pot aux roses?
It was in mid-July that, again according to France Info, Kiabi sought to recover an investment made a year earlier. The ex-accountant had at that time, in 2023, placed 100 million in an account with the aim of recovering interest. After a year, the company approached the bank. She then discovered that the money had “volatilized”, using the technique of “bounce accounts”, these accounts funded by multiple transfers of funds from abroad without any link being able to be established.
“This fraud in no way calls into question the financial solidity of Kiabi and has no impact on the maintenance of our annual trajectory,” added a source at Kiabi, who neither confirmed nor denied the amount. of diversion.
“We immediately launched all necessary actions, including legal ones, in order to obtain recovery of the amount of the fraud. We have every confidence in the outcome of the actions carried out by the judicial and police authorities involved,” Kiabi management said this Friday.
Who is this 39 year old woman?
The thirty-year-old, who has Neapolitan and Corsican origins, worked for a group specializing in luxury, according to the portrait drawn up by France Info. A portrait on the Internet describes her as an asset manager whose main achievement was the arrangement of the hangar of the private jet of a famous American DJ.
The former treasurer is also very present on social networks, which allowed investigators to quickly locate her. She appears in photos on a Greek island during a fiesta, then on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. This is where she will take a private jet to reach Corsica with, in her luggage, jewelry and luxury items.
In his investigation, the France Info journalist also claims to have discovered that this woman “had been sentenced by the Paris criminal court to two years in prison for a fraud to the detriment of another company, this time to nearly 800,000 euros.” It was a few days before the money transfer to Kiabi.
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