Short-lived president of the OGC Nice football club in 2002 and son of an alleged figure in the Marseille community, Robert Cassone was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for attempted fraud by an organized gang at three establishments. banking.
Robert Cassone, 57, having already been in pre-trial detention, the remainder of his sentence will be served under an electronic bracelet.
The court also imposed a fine of 100,000 euros, the confiscation of two luxury watches and a sum of 11,600 euros.
In 2013, Robert Cassone and his wife approached several banks for a loan of 320,000 euros intended to finance the work on a villa they were building in Corbara (Haute-Corse).
With the complicity of a forger, an intermediary and unofficial real estate loan brokers, a file full of false documents, including falsified pay slips and inaccurate tax notices, was submitted to five banking establishments .
The court recognized the attempted fraud against three of them, the steps taken with two other banks cannot be analyzed as a start of execution of the offense.
Robert Cassone presented himself as a medical delegate, his wife as a territorial civil servant, the couple claiming to enjoy annual income of 62,000 euros.
Restitution of the land in Corsica
Their official resources were in reality made up of his partner's salary of 1,800 euros alone.
She was sentenced to two years' imprisonment under house arrest under electronic surveillance and a fine of 100,000 euros.
The investigation established a lifestyle ranging from 4,000 to 12,000 euros per month, which led to the couple also being convicted for failure to prove their resources.
During the proceedings in February, Robert Cassone denied being the instigator of these attempted frauds, regretting having
"followed like an idiot the sales pitches"
of two co-defendants who presented themselves as real estate loan brokers.
One of them was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, to be served under an electronic bracelet, and a fine of 30,000 euros.
He had admitted the recruitment of a forger, given a one-year suspended sentence and a fine of 9,000 euros, and of a doctor, to establish a false medical certificate, and having taken steps with the banks.
In a separate judgment, the court ordered the immediate restitution to the sellers of the land on which the Cassone couple's house was built, owners
"in good faith who have not been paid"
and, says the court,
"have thus been deprived of their land for more than ten years
.