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Marseille Police Officer Barred From Duty Over Alleged Sale of Confidential Files

The case shows how a low-level insider using Telegram with PayPal payments can sabotage major police work.

Overview

  • The officer in her twenties has been barred from duty in Marseille after a September 2025 formal investigation for corruption, with prior pretrial detention followed by judicial supervision.
  • Prosecutors say she accessed more than 5,000 police records and sold data on wanted people, criminal histories, and stolen cars for €15 per file.
  • Investigators report at least €10,000 reached her PayPal account between May and September 2025, and she sent the data to a Telegram go-between who resold it across France.
  • The intermediary was arrested on March 11 and, on March 13, was placed under formal investigation and held in pretrial detention.
  • Paris prosecutors, the police watchdog IGPN, and the cybercrime office Ofac are probing organized data theft and corruption, with at least a dozen operations—covering drugs, attempted murder, weapons, and a kidnapping case—disrupted.