Agence France-Presse reported that the Paris Prosecutor's Office announced on January 4 that it had launched an investigation into "organized gang fraud" and "organized gang money laundering" after a real estate development company became the victim of a "president fraud" and caused tens of millions of euros in losses.
In early December last year, a scammer posing as president of Sefri-Cime contacted the company. The scammers ordered the accountant to make several secret transfers to foreign bank accounts on the grounds that the company was preparing to go public. According to people familiar with the matter, the company lost more than 35 million euros. AFP tried to contact Sefri-Cime but got no response.
False remittance scams, or "president scams," appeared around 2010. One of the most legendary cases is Gilbert Chikli, a con artist with dual French and Israeli citizenship, who was arrested in 2017. Since 2015, he has used a silicone mask to pretend to be France's defense minister at the time, Le Dreyion, and has defrauded 80 million euros.
(Editor: Li Jingtong)
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