Karim A. was not content to fool these few people. He did it again with seven accomplices who, like him, were absent at the Nivelles criminal hearing on November 12 when a file was opened on identical crimes committed against 39 elderly and therefore vulnerable people. Only five of them, all women, had made the trip in the hope of recovering their stake.
Wine ordered after telephone contact
The ten police zones of Walloon Brabant had, in turn, recorded complaints targeting delivery men who showed up at their homes between December 22, 2021 and February 2, 2022 to provide the bottles of wine ordered very recklessly after contact telephone call given, as previously, from a Moroccan call center.
The Crown’s prosecutor Magali Raes pilloried the defendants and Karim A. who had enlisted them after careful preparation, the rental of two rooms in a Brussels hotel and several vehicles, with a choice of delivery men of various nationalities using the Bancontact of French companies to seize 176,000 euros. “They not only targeted vulnerable people, they also sold them unspeakable scams”she said before requesting eight sentences of two years in prison.
The court did not put all the defendants in the same bag as the convicted. The convictions take into account the more or less significant involvement of each defendant in this scam orchestrated by Karim A., who receives four years in prison and a fine of 24,000 euros. The other sanctions also fall without reprieve, two years for Youssef M., 21 months for Myriam M., 18 months for Taoufik C., 15 months for Célène M., one year for Soihili D., El-Had D. and Chakib G.. The amounts claimed by the five civil parties are granted to them.
