A criticism towards Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet for a tax restoration averted an organization; A choice that she says justified | EUROtoday

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Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, the resigning Minister of Labor, in Paris on September 10, 2025.

AC affiliation !! Anti-corruption introduced, Friday, September 12, to the company France-Presse (AFP) having filed a criticism towards the Minister of Labor who resigned, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, a couple of tax restoration averted to an organization, which she presents as a “Management act” justified.

The cupboard of Mme Panosyan-Bouvet assured that it was a “Management act” by which “A minister takes responsibility to fill a legal vacuum or an interpretation of the law”. The Minister stresses that she has “No link neither near nor far with this company and its buyer”.

The criticism towards X, of which AFP obtained a duplicate, denounces a number of potential offenses, such because the unlawful takeover of pursuits, the embezzlement of public funds or the concussion, but in addition the abuse of authority, the abuse of company items or the wrong presentation of the annual accounts.

The doc mentions particularly a tax restoration thatme Panosyan-Bouvet would have averted the corporate Setforge, and that presumably towards the recommendation of justice, as wrote Mediapart At the start of September.

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Solicited, neither the Company nor the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), a recipient of the criticism, responded to AFP. According to the criticism, the URSSAF has engaged towards setforge “A significant recovery relating to several unpaid social contributions exercises. This recovery had been notified, accepted by the competent services and was in the process of recovery. »»

Mediapart pointed out that the decision would also have been the subject of an unfavorable court decision in Setforge. “Now, against all oddsunderlines AC !! Anti-corruption, The Minister of Labor intervened personally to have this recovery purely and simply cancel. »»

“An unjustified social debt”

“This decision, taken without identifiable legal basis and against the advice of the organizations responsible for recovery, had the direct consequence of subtracting social security from the sums due to it and of making the SetForge of an unjustified social debt erase”add the association.

The ministry referred, on Friday, to its response to the article of Mediapart. Mme Panosyan-Bouvet explains that his decision “Following an investigation of several months and fine checks of the company’s situation by state services”. She recalls having been seized by several officials including union representatives, elected officials or the prefect.

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The company should have seen its social contributions increased after the recognition of an exhibition of employees at asbestos, she underlines. She explains that she decided not to apply this increased rate, because she had not been using asbestos since at least 2021, that she had been bought by setForge the same year, and that an increase in contributions threatened “The viability of the business” and its hundred jobs.

The complaint also files on the “Manifest disproportion” between the“Real activity” set -daux “And the financial masses that she manipulates”. For AC !! Anti-corruption, this “Structurally deficit and financially artificialized company has diverted or employed suspicious of public and private funding”.

“When we see the situation of France and especially the situation of social security, we cannot understand the decision of a minister, against the tide of a court decision. We hope that an investigation will allow us to say why such a decision ” was taken,, stated Marcel Claude, president of AC !! Anti-corruption, to AFP.

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