Between 2008 and 2009, three crooks stole 1.6 billion euros in France and 6 billion in the European Union on the “Carbon Quotas” financial market, created to fight global warming. One of them, Arnaud Mimran, is talking about him again. He is on trial this November 8 for telephone trafficking.
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– Arnaud Mimran photographed in 2011 in Antibes, five years before the “scam of the century” trial.
The “scam of the century” earned its perpetrators, in the summer of 2016, a sentence of 8 years in prison and a million euro fine by the Paris criminal court. Marco Mouly, Arnaud Mimran and Samy Souied (assassinated in 2010) were found guilty of stealing 1.6 billion euros in France and 6 billion in the European Union on the “Carbon Quotas” market. This scam was the subject of a Netflix documentary series The Kings of Scam and the series Silver and blood broadcast on Canal+, itself adapted from the book published in 2018 by Fabrice Arfi, journalist at Mediapart.
Arnaud Mimran was also sentenced on appeal in 2022 to thirteen years of criminal imprisonment for the kidnapping of a Swiss banker. He is also suspected of being involved in three murders. In April 2021, he was indicted for complicity in the 2011 assassination of his former father-in-law, billionaire Claude Dray, and for organized gang murder regarding the death, in 2010, of Samy Souied.
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Released in 2032
Mimran never stops talking about him. The “high-flyer of the beautiful neighborhoods” as some call him, is suspected of having taken part in cell phone trafficking from Coulaines prison where he is incarcerated. He is on trial at Le Mans this November 8, as reported by Ouest-France. Appearing for the first time before the Le Mans magistrates on October 4, Arnaud Mimran saw the case dismissed while the public prosecutor requested that he remain in prison, from which he should not be released until 2032.
