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.
Up to several hundred thousand euros
According to an investigation by the regional daily L'Est Républicain, at 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.
According to the newspaper, Tommy Goudey may also have been a co-founder or shareholder in at least one of these companies.
In a call for witnesses, the public prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois invites “any person who believes they have been the victim of fraudulent actions as part of or in connection with a transaction carried out with Mr. Goudey Tommy, directly or indirectly via a company » to report the facts to the prosecution. For now, the prosecution has opened an investigation for “organized gang fraud”.
Investigation into 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.
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,” estimates the prosecutor.
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