The Pointe-à-Pitre court (Guadeloupe) sentenced Tuesday Éric Koury, the ex-Air Antilles airline CAPat 18 months suspended prison sentence, notably for scam, indicated the prosecutor of the Pointe-à-Pitre Republic. “The probationary stay is accompanied by three obligations: working, paying the sums due and compensating the victims,” added Caroline Calbo.
The former Dirigener of the Cairo group (Interregional Express airline), who operated Air Antilles and Air Guyana before their liquidation in 2023was implicated for scam and hidden work having taken place between March 2020 and September 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis.
He was suspected of having received large public sums of partial unemployment. He declared employees no longer being part of his companies, artificially influenced others, and this in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana.
A ban on managing
He was also criticized for having undergone worked hours causing a shortfall for the URSSAF estimated at more than a million euros.
Éric Koury also receives a fine of 100,000 euros, with a ban on managing businesses in the sector and spending public contracts for five years, as well as a similar duration for an ineligibility sentence. Éric Koury has not yet indicated if he appealed.
After Antilles air liquidationthe company has been taken up, and has as a shareholder the community of Saint-Martin. Since this resumption, financial difficulties have led the air transport management to modify the company’s operating license, now reduced to a temporary authorization.
