On Thursday, June 6, a 75-year-old widow was tried at the La Rochelle Criminal Court for having tried to launder the money acquired through hidden work. of her late husband.

The Casino case, laundering big money, hidden work concerns a 75-year-old retired former secretary. She would have laundered 750,000 euros between 2019 and 2021. Her modus operandi is to go to the casinos on the west coast (Royan, La Tremblade, La Tremblade, La Rochelle and Villebret in Allier) and exchange her tickets for those at the establishment that she considered “more recent”. She was arrested in 2021 at the La Rochelle casino, while she was trying to exchange 6,000 euros. Given the age of the defendant and her completely empty criminal record, the court sentenced her to a fine of 125,000 euros with the confiscation of 175,000 euros from the laundered sum