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Editorial Guérande
Published on
Jan 16, 2025 at 6:30 a.m.
The Parisian couple, without children, who had chosen La Turballe (Loire-Atlantique) for their retirement, had a particularly comfortable lifestyle, judging by the fact that they were subject to the ISF (Wealth Tax). until 2011. These former banking executives had kept (little) contact with three family members residing in the capital. But they had many employees at their service, including two caregivers who were prosecuted for abuse of weakness. Tuesday January 14, 2025, one, now aged 62, had to answer before the Saint-Nazaire court for facts between December 2012 and May 2014. Due to her hospitalization, the second, who will be 79 this year , was unable to be present and his trial was postponed until September 30.
“€500,000 of savings melted away in four years”
It was when the couple was placed under guardianship that the embezzlement was discovered and a sister-in-law filed a complaint.
The legal representative did painstaking work to take stock of the accounts, leading him to an impressive finding: “€500,000 of savings melted in four years”.
The main instigator was apparently the private secretary, who granted himself a monthly salary of €12,000.
Having died, he could not be heard, just like the spouses themselves having died in 2017 and 2018, then aged 89 and 85 respectively.
At the bar, the sixty-year-old admitted that, having opened up about her financial difficulties to the man she trusted, he granted her hourly rates varying from €14 to €23 and added hours of presence which she accepted without scruple .
On the stand, she did not want to go back on her statements, unfolding a paper on which she had written:
“I realized what I did, I regret having done that. I apologize to the family. »
It emerged that gross wages over the last three months amounted to €3,033 and that she cashed 24 checks for around €9,000 in just two years.
Six months suspended sentence
In defense, Me Mathilde Rolland specifies, regarding these €500,000: “You should know that €360,000 corresponded to the salaries of the many employees”.
The lawyer insists: “If my client accepted, it was not she who asked to inflate her salaries.”
For the prosecutor, it is obvious that the couple's state of vulnerability was apparent, supported by medical certificates.
She denounces the actions of the private secretary who left his position when he felt the tide turn and who, having died, could not be heard but she mentions:
“The mechanism developed was agreed to by everyone. »
The magistrate dwells “on the notions of bonuses, reimbursements of trips without supporting documents…”
The court followed its requisitions: six months suspended prison sentence, for fraudulent abuse of the ignorance of vulnerable people.
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