False plumbers or police officers, they made dozens of victims in Nice

Three men extracted several hundred thousand euros from dozens of elderly people (Illustration) -

They crisscrossed the Côte d'Azur for two years, between 2017 and 2019, and raised several hundred thousand euros, withdrawn from dozens of elderly people.

Specialists in theft by trickery, three men who pretended to be plumbers, electricians and even police officers with their victims were each sentenced to five years in prison by the Nice Criminal Court, reports

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And according to the regional daily, the modus operandi was still the same.

While Michael K., 29, pretended to do his checking or repair work, his brother Akim K. and his brother-in-law Georges F., 26 and 33, searched the premises for mainly jewelry. and money.

They would have succeeded in particular in leaving a residence on the Promenade des Anglais with a diamond estimated at 900,000 euros according to its owner.

Bank accounts and confiscated cars

From their headquarters established route de Grenoble, in Nice, the three men, from the community of Travelers and who officially only lived on the RSA, moved to the four corners of the Alpes-Maritimes and to the Var department.

Pinched in April 2019 after months of spinning, they had been imprisoned.

They will therefore remain in prison.

The judges also ordered the confiscation of their rather well-stocked bank accounts and their cars.

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• Fraud

• Nice

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