The online reseller of 26,000 false work stoppages indicted – Liberation
250,000 euros. This is the amount of fraud produced by a 22-year-old Landais, identified as the creator and administrator of Stop-travail.com. At the end of nine months of investigation, the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan announced this Friday, June 13, his indictment for the chiefs of « (Facilitation) of social fraud », « false in an administrative document », « illegal exercise of the profession of doctor » And « Placement, concealment or conversion of the product of a crime or offense (aggravated whitening) ». The platform he had put online to be made up of false work stoppages, issued in « Less than five minutes, top time! » The site was boasting.
The prosecution claims in its press release that the platform « Offer Anyone wishing to get a work stoppagethe possibility of entering personal data fields, reporting codified symptoms and then selecting a doctor associated with his domiciliation geographic area. « The newspaper South West reported that on April 15, stop-travail.com presented itself as having « 1 million users, 200 doctors listed, a price of “9 euros only” And obviously 100 % satisfaction ”. The platform was disabled the next day.
The local daily life develops that on the platform, « Everything is à la carte », Designed to obtain a more real than life work stoppage. It is possible for the user to choose his illness, from colds to pneumonia.
Between April 2024 and April 2025, more than 42,000 people would have applied for a work stoppage through this, said the prosecution press release. At least 26,000 of them received one after having paid around ten euros each, according to the investigators.
It is an investigation by the Central Office to Combat illegal Work (OCLTI), under the authority of the Créteil prosecution, which made it possible to go back to the counterfeiter. The first investigations quickly managed to establish that the site was domiciled in the Landes department.
Placed in police custody in January then again Thursday June 12, the young man was placed under judicial supervision, pending his judgment by the criminal court of Mont-de-Marsanin November 2025. He was already known to police services for scam and road crimes. The Landais faces up to ten years’ imprisonment and 750,000 euros fine.
