The daughter of the former senator-mayor of Saint-Cap-Ferrat and her companion, an architect specializing in the service to billionaires of the peninsula, were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, both suspected of fraud and false invoices, AFP learned on Friday (October 15) from the prosecution.
Olivia Vestri and Joe Aoun are also suspected of possible violations of the urban planning code in this case which led to the indictment of two entrepreneurs, after a wave of arrests on Tuesday, added the prosecution, confirming information from
Nice-Matin,
without wanting to say more at this stage.
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Joe Aoun presents himself as the boss of the first hyperluxe agency in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, with a branch in Lebanon.
His offices were searched, as were those of several entrepreneurs on the Côte d'Azur, and the offices of the town hall where the architect obtained work or extension permits before offering the contract to companies, in exchange. of presumed financial counterparties.
In 2017, three members of the family of René Vestri, UMP mayor (former name of the Republicans) for 30 years of Saint-Cap-Ferrat, who died in 2013, were sentenced in the context of the sprawling financial case of the Tour Odéon.
His daughter Olivia had been found guilty of having withdrawn from the tax authorities the hefty income that a private beach granted by the town hall gave her and sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of social assets and tax evasion.
The funds were notably hidden in accounts in Switzerland, opened in the name of companies founded in the British Virgin Islands, and its offshore accounts had been frozen by the courts.
