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.