After the Directoire chests of drawers, Chinese lacquerware and Louis XVI cabinets… the Porsche, Jaguar and Doha hotel in Qatar.
It is a space-time journey that the 13th criminal chamber of the Paris court undertook this Wednesday, in search of Jean Lupu's missing millions.
This star antiques dealer from Faubourg-Saint-Honoré (Paris 8th), specialist in the 18th century, was to be judged for having resold falsified furniture at high prices, without saying anything to the buyers about the restorations carried out.
The money raised was allegedly hidden in Panama, via offshore companies.
The antiques dealer died before he could explain himself.
What remains is his wife, Monique, 92 years old, absent this Wednesday - "because she was injured getting off the train", say his lawyers - and especially Gilles D., the great-nephew suspected of having profited from several millions of fraudulent loot.
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