Prevent. Detect. Train.
Fintracia designs and delivers intensive 3 to 5-day courses for tax administrations, tax schools and financial intelligence units in French-speaking Africa. Every participant leaves with tools they use as soon as they are back at their desk. Courses are taught in French.
What we do
We help tax administrations in French-speaking Africa detect, document and secure the handling of tax fraud.
Fictitious invoices, carousel schemes, fake exports: spotting them and quantifying the loss.
Transfer pricing, permanent establishment and tax treaties: protecting the tax base.
Evidence, reasoning, due process and referral to prosecutors.
Cross-checking returns, customs, bank and registry data to audit the highest risks first.
Flagship programme · 5 days
From the first red flag to a case file that holds up in court. Each day produces a tool participants take back to their unit.
VAT fraud, fictitious invoices, shell companies, under-reporting, customs fraud, money laundering.
Map of fraud schemesReturns, accounts, invoices, bank reconciliations, customs and registry data. Building risk indicators.
Risk grid and scoring matrixInvestigation plan, evidence gathering, interviews, desk and field audits, seizures, chain of custody.
Investigation file templateLegal qualification, loss calculation, interest, penalties and sanctions. Drafting the reassessment notice.
Reassessment notice templateReasoning, due process, litigation, referral to prosecutors, cooperation with customs, justice and FIUs.
Individual post-training action planTrack record
Taxation: comparative approach with France · 8 days · for the Directorate General of Taxes.
Republic of Congo · Brazzaville · August 2026Taxation: comparative approach with France · 8 days · for the Directorate General of Taxes and State Property (DGID).
Further references available on request, in line with our institutional clients' confidentiality.
Catalogue 2026-2027
Each module can be taken on its own, built into an existing programme or combined into a certified pathway.
10 modules taught by Olivier Lechelle 6 modules taught with associate experts
Delivery formats
Quotes depend on country, number of officers, level of adaptation and funding source.
Rapid upskilling on a targeted topic.
Operational skills, tools, case studies and assessment.
Individual project, coaching and final certification.
Competency framework, materials and tools built for your administration.
Your in-house trainers take over with the full teaching kit.
Mandatory staff training for real estate, wealth management, insurance and accounting firms (in French).
Ready-to-deploy modules that fit into capacity-building programmes.
Founder and lead trainer
Thirty years spanning banking, financial investigation and tax audit. Olivier Lechelle spent eleven years as a financial investigator with the French Ministry of the Interior, then joined the French tax administration (DGFiP) as a public finance inspector, where he handled transfer pricing cases among others.
Since 2021 he has trained officers and managers in tax law, anti-money laundering and financial fraud, using cases reconstructed from real situations and tools designed for the field.
Contact
Describe your audience and priorities. You will receive a programme proposal within two working days.
