Enrico Macias risk of losing it all, the singer is a victim of a scam – Gala

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Monday, August 28, Enrico Macias, will know finally the verdict of the case against an icelandic bank that it accuses of fraud. If this last is found not guilty, the interpreter of the Girls of my country could lose the only property he has.

After several years of judicial battle, the correctional court of Paris will say on Monday 28 August if Enrico Macias and a hundred other people were or were not victims of a scam of the mortgage. In 2007, the singer and his late wife Suzy had taken a loan of 35 million euro from irish bank Landsbanki. A sum mirobolante which the couple could dispose of, provided he puts in pledge two of his residences, including the villa of Saint-Tropez.

A year later, struck by the crisis, the bank goes bankrupt and threatens Enrico Macias to sell his house if he does not repay the full amount that it has borrowed. But it refuses. Lack of luck, the court of Luxembourg, stating that he had subscribed to this loan ” knowingly “, and is ordered to pay 30 million euros.

It will have to wait for 2014 for that Landsbanki was finally indicted. After three long years of waiting, the public prosecutor has requested the 23 may last, to suspended prison sentences and fines against nine former executives, managers, and advisors in wealth management related to the luxembourg subsidiary of the icelandic bank.

“I spent 10 years in fear of losing my only good , “said Enrico Macias at trial. For their part, his lawyers hope that the “condemnation of the bank as a legal person” and the “confiscation of debts that still weigh on the civil parties. ”

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Enrico Macias

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