French tax agent used company software to track down crypto investors and pass details onto criminals. Attorney general: “This woman used her position in a completely abnormal way to serve a seasoned criminal. Her place is in prison.”

A French tax agent has been denied release from pre‑trial detention after investigators found she used internal tax software to look up cryptocurrency investors and other sensitive targets, then passed that information to criminal associates. Prosecutors say the data was used to facilitate a violent home invasion against a prison officer and may have been intended to help gangs identify wealthy crypto holders for extortion or attacks. The civil servant, identified as Ghalia C., worked at the Bobigny tax office near Paris and allegedly exploited the French tax administration’s Mira system and other databases to conduct unauthorized searches on specific individuals. Logs from her workstation showed queries on crypto specialists and investors, prison guards, health inspectors, a judge, and French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, none of which related to her official duties handling corporate tax files. According to prosecutors, she then transmitted this confidential information to criminal contacts, receiving cash deposits and money transfers in return. The case came to light after three armed men attacked a La Santé prison guard and his wife at their home in Montreuil in 2024; investigators say Ghalia supplied the couple’s new address obtained from tax records, and the attackers later admitted being paid about €800 to carry out the assault. Ghalia has admitted passing information but claims she did not know how it would be used, and she has refused to unlock her phone or identify any alleged instigator, leading the Paris Court of Appeal to reject her request for release. The attorney general argued that she “used her position in a completely abnormal way to serve a seasoned criminal,” insisting that her place is in prison. The affair has intensified concerns about insider abuse of state data and the security of tax-held information on crypto investors, amid a broader rise in targeted kidnappings and “wrench attacks” against crypto holders in France.

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