The sums were mostly donated to a husband addicted to gambling and a capricious daughter.
The former personal assistant of singer Michel Jonasz was sentenced on Monday by the Paris court for defrauding him of 398,000 euros between 2013 and 2019, reports
Le Parisien
.
In charge of the artist's accounts, the 53-year-old woman received an eighteen-month suspended prison sentence for breach of trust and money laundering, along with reimbursement of the entire amount stolen.
Formerly the singer's secretary and administrative assistant, the defendant - referred to as Soraya - had repeatedly sent checks and transfers in the name of the artist.
The assistant thus rounded off her salary then fixed at 2,400 euros per month and offered herself European and New York trips with the family.
His fraudulent management of Michel Jonasz's accounts was discovered by a second assistant to the 75-year-old singer.
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Faced with justice, Michel Jonasz's secretary acknowledged the facts, but not the amounts put forward by the magistrate in charge of the case, proposing to return at most 150,000 euros.
According to her, the majority of the funds were disbursed to pay current bills.
The husband and one of Soraya's daughters would not have been made aware of the origin of her sudden excesses of liberalities.
The assistant was nevertheless ordered to reimburse the 398,000, failing which the justice will revoke her reprieve.
Michel Jonasz would have shown himself at first
“rather understanding”
with his assistant, according to the person concerned.
He would have granted him a week off after the discovery of the pot of roses, said his former secretary during the hearing.
The defendant was finally fired by the artist in 2019. A heartbreak for the singer who had poured all his trust into the one he considered
“a super girl”
.
