A sentence of 10 years' criminal imprisonment was requested against a notary from Lubersac (Corrèze), tried for ten days before the Assizes of Corrèze for the misappropriation of several inheritances between 2013 and 2017, in which forgeries in public writing are reproached to him.
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The public prosecutor also requested sentences of six years and two years in prison against two other co-defendants, a taxi and ambulance driver and a nonagenarian described as "
the third character between Ma Dalton and Aunt Danielle
".
According to the Advocate General, their “
small secret business
” enabled them to collect nearly one million euros.
A judicial investigation opened in the fall of 2015
The case began in 2014 with inconsistencies noted after a death when a person was surprised that his deceased cousin had bequeathed his property to a complete stranger when she had always shown her desire to transmit her heritage to the school. de Lubersac and cancer research.
A year later, the case happened again with an estate settled by the same associated notary for the benefit of the same legatee, the second co-accused, again unknown to the family of the deceased.
A judicial investigation was opened in the fall of 2015, quickly showing that the two men knew each other well and exchanged regularly.
A third falsification of wills was then brought to light and suspicions of embezzlement in other succession procedures, such as misappropriated life insurance and falsified invoices to weigh advantageously on the heritage to be transmitted, also came to be added to the case.
The accused in her nineties, heir to at least one estate, was then implicated for complicity.
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The suspects, arrested in April 2017, passed the buck during their hearings, the notary saying he was coerced by his friend and accomplice, who threatened to reveal everything, and the latter claiming to have acted in this way because the notary had the ascendancy on him.
“
I don't believe in this hold of one over the other.
The two got on well.
The first is the technician who masters inheritance arrangements;
the second has knowledge of the environment, he knows the elderly well thanks to his job as a taxi and ambulance
, "insisted the representative of the public prosecutor's office, also pointing to the"
total absence of confessions
"of the notary “
despite the evidence
”.
The verdict is expected Friday.
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