Scam in Loire-Atlantique: his sister-in-law’s account closed, he used her checkbook for €45,141

The case stems from a complaint filed on November 4, 2020 by a chicken breeder. The man, sent before the Criminal Court from Saint-Nazaire, Tuesday May 7, 2024, paid it with three checks taken from his partner’s notebook. Seriously ill, she died in January 2021. One could be cashed: €680, the other two were rejected: €705 and €135.

He paid a supplier with a check for €840 taken from his checkbook. sister in law. Check “rejected because stolen”.

He even filed a complaint for the theft of his checkbook

He unscrupulously used a notebook from the latter, for a total sum of €45,141. Except for one (important) detail: it was a closed account! He imitated bank checks by applying a fraudulent stamp, did not hesitate to file a complaint for the theft from his checkbook.

In short, several offenses which resulted in him being prosecuted for fraud, forgery, forgery of checks, theft, both in Moutiers-en-Retz and in La Bernerie-en-Retz (Loire-Atlantique), near Pornic.

And that’s not all: having opened a business selling farm products directly, an employee (it seems that she is not the only one), present during the trial, claimed “to have never had payslipsnever having been paid for overtime…”

As for the hiring statement, he supposedly “didn’t know about it.”

” It is reality “

THE president of the court does not believe him: “Where does the truth begin? Where does the lie end? », he asks. “You handed over the checks three or four times, you were shooting yourself in the foot! »

The respondent admitted: “I had difficulties and blinders. In these cases, we only think about ourselves.”

It’s awful, I betrayed employees, friends, customers, my family…

A “barker” for a victim, a man is a “crook” for Me Benbrahim, lawyer for a friend of his partner: “He begged her to help him, made her swallow snakes. Today he owes her €21,000for which she requests reimbursement.

L’employee’s lawyer in turn mentioned “a particularly manipulative personality”.

She underlined “the serious consequences for this young woman, who had to face multiple creditors coming to claim their unpaid debts and who still remains very affected”.

There prosecutor deplored “the ability of this man to persist in his mode of operation… He thought he was getting out of it, he got trapped. He was indifferent to the complications his behavior may have had on the victims. »

The defendant kept a low profile: “What was said is the reality of the facts. I want to apologize “.

He was sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence and a ban on running a business for five years. He will have to pay €21,800 to his friend’s partner, €1,300 to his former employee and €3,943 to a defrauded company.

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