He has been dead for a year, but it is only him that the 13th criminal chamber of the court spoke about, Monday January 11 afternoon at the opening of the trial for trafficking in fake antique furniture, in Paris between 2007 and 2015 . Jean Lupu, fed at the Flea Market, where his mother had a stand, became a second-hand dealer and self-taught antiques dealer at not even 15 years old, in the 1940s, then essential on the Place de Paris with his gallery a minute's walk from the 'Elysium.
But also “the most brilliant forger of all time”?
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Indicted in 2016, Jean Lupu took this accusation with him to his grave.
He did not appear at his trial last June, suffering from “the beginnings of Alzheimer’s”.
Since his death, public action against him has ceased, but not against his wife, Monique Lupu, 92 years old, and Gilles D., second cousin, aged 53, suspected of money laundering via companies offshore in Panama and accounts in Qatar… The little cousin would have squandered the money he was supposed to transfer from Panama to Qatar, at the time of the Panama Papers.
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