They resold Highway Codes for 600 euros on Snapchat, a huge traffic which brought in 120,000 euros dismantled

More than 120,000 euros. This is the money that the manager of an examination center earned by reselling Highway Code without giving the candidates the exam. The crook was finally arrested by the police on September 13.

“The network was managed by an examination center in Val-de-Marne,” explains to actu.fr, an investigator from Vesoul. The first testimony arrived in this gendarmerie in Burgundy Franche-Comté.

Purchase on Telegram or Snapchat

The “candidates” for the Highway Code bought their diploma on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, or even on Snapchat, at a price of between 250 and 600 euros. They paid their money to a “tout” contacted on one of the platforms mentioned, then the latter took care of the procedures.

He registered the candidates “in an examination center via the Internet and this center then sent a copy of the Code examination (supposedly passed) by email”, indicates Actu.fr.

“The investigations made it possible to identify three people, living in Vesoul, who locally ran this network, as well as around fifty fraudsters. Interviewed at the beginning of July, they all admitted to having purchased the Highway Code,” an investigator tells our colleagues.

The 120,000 euros seized from the suspect’s home

“The manager and sole employee of this center in Val-de-Marne was arrested and placed in police custody on September 13. He admitted the facts. He sold the Highway Codes to people he calls “my touts” between 80 euros and 130 euros per unit. His lucrative “business” would have allowed him to acquire around 120,000 euros. A large sum of money was also seized from his home”, continues the soldier.

As a result, the exam center was closed. A list of suspected fraudsters was sent to all prefectures in France by the public prosecutor. The objective? Remove the Highway Codes, and therefore the driving licenses, from the beneficiaries of the deception.

The latter risk prosecution “for forgery and use of forgery”. “The provision of a false administrative document is punishable by 5 years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros”, specifies the site Service-public.fr.