Their death led to their acquittal by the Lyon Criminal Court, in the case known as the 500,000 euro bail paid with a thousand 500 euro notes. Three weeks after the shooting of Mehdi Boulenouane, in the Paris region, and the natural death of his father, the courts acquitted them posthumously, this Monday, June 3.
“ We were heard by the court. It’s a victory for the lawreacted Maître David Metaxas, one of the lawyers of the murdered Grenoblois to France Bleu. But it’s a bitter-tasting victory because we can’t share it with our client. The court found that at the time, in 2016, it was legal to pay bail in small denominations and that there was no laundering.” Suspected of being the mastermind of a vast drug, arms and money laundering trafficking network, Mehdi Boulenouane was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2016.
An investigation opened following the death of Mehdi Boulenouane
A case in which 30 people were tried and acquitted following the death of the boss, aged 36 at the time of the events. All participated in the payment of the said bail of 500,000 euros, during his judicial placement. According to information from Parisian, one of them paid 70,000 euros. This regulation quickly aroused the suspicions of the authorities and a judicial investigation to “money laundering”, “non-proof of resources” And ” conspiracy “ is open.
As a reminder, Mehdi Boulenouane was released last March. Two months later, on Thursday May 16, he was shot several times by two men on a motorcycle as they left his apartment in the Paris region. His death led to the opening of an investigation entrusted to the Parisian PJ. For the authorities, it could be a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
