He would have promised attractive returns after real estate work which was not always carried out. A call for witnesses was launched by the Montbéliard public prosecutor’s office against an influencer suspected of having scammed individuals.
Tommy Goudey, nicknamed “Tom Monopoly” on social networks, where he enjoys a certain notoriety with more than 100,000 subscribers on Instagram, is the target of several reports from individuals for what can be compared to real estate scams.
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A call for witnesses to “centralize” the procedures
According to an investigation by the regional daily The Republican Eastat least fifteen people suffered damage ranging from a few thousand to several hundred thousand euros. They allegedly followed the influencer’s advice by calling on a construction company for real estate that they had just acquired, but the work was never finished and the property was left abandoned.
In a call for witnesses, the public prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois invites “any person who believes they have been the victim of fraudulent actions within the framework of or in connection with a transaction carried out with Tommy Goudey, directly or indirectly via a company” to report the facts to the public prosecutor’s office.
The objective of the call for witnesses is to “centralize” the procedures, since by “dissecting each of these complaints, these reports, we understand that indeed, there is potentially a significant number of people who may be concerned by the same type of actions,” believes the prosecutor.
Victims all over France
For now, the prosecution has opened an investigation for “organized gang fraud”. To date, five complaints have arrived at the prosecution, emanating from different regions: the complainants are not based in Montbéliard and its surroundings, unlike the companies gravitating around the influencer, several of which have their head office in the sector, indicates the parquet.
These people, who wanted to “achieve what was presented as something potentially lucrative”, come from almost everywhere in France, explains the magistrate.
“I will easily demonstrate that I am not a crook,” insisted Tommy Goudey, who describes himself on social networks as a “real estate and business coach” and says he has acquired 84 properties in seven years. He also denied being behind a scam in his responses to Republican Eastand “on the whole, placed the blame on the construction companies and their managers”, writes the newspaper.
