The plaintiff invested 150,000 euros in a case that never took off.
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Mourad Allili / Sipa
The case concerns former footballer Lucien Aubey.
According to
La Dépêche du Midi
, the 36-year-old former defender, trained at the TFC before going through Lens, Rennes and Reims in particular, is indicted for fraud and threat of death.
The daily indicates that the businessman Mohamed Dia (47 years old), founder of the clothing brand Mr. Dia, is also indicted for complicity.
Contacted this Tuesday by
20 Minutes
, the Toulouse public prosecutor Dominique Alzéari confirms "the opening of information still in progress".
A complaint was lodged by a former friend, but also a neighbor of Aubey in the Toulouse suburbs, where the player had returned to settle at the end of his sports career, in 2013. On the proposal of the former left-back, partner for the occasion in Dia, the thirty-something would have invested 150,000 euros to create a music label.
This sum came from the 230,000 euros in compensation that this man had just received after a serious traffic accident.
The phone call to Ribéry
To convince his neighbor to participate in the project, Aubey would have briefly telephoned in front of him Franck Ribéry, whom he had known when they were playing together in the France Espoirs team.
But the business never really took off, and by the mid-2010s the investor would have liked to get his money back.
Things turned sour at that point.
The neighbor of the former Violet would not have accepted the reimbursement in small installments proposed by Lucien Aubey and ended up filing a complaint.
On the side of the defender trained at TFC, there is a story of placement that did not pay off as much as hoped.
Me Simon Cohen, Aubey's lawyer, did not wish to speak further on Tuesday.
On the complainant's side, his counsel, Me Laurent de Caunes, could not be reached late Tuesday afternoon.
La Dépêche du Midi
specifies that if Franck Ribéry should soon be heard as a witness in this affair, his role would be extremely marginal.
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