Former Real Estate Agent Sentenced to 4 Years for €546,000 Fraud Scheme

The verdict was handed down on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Absent from his trial, Soufyène Mazouz was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud. He is accused of having misappropriated security deposits during real estate transactions, to the detriment of twenty families for a total amount of 546,000 euros. In addition to the prison sentence, he was also ordered to compensate Nestenn in the amount of 98,635 euros for the financial damage after the termination of the franchise contract and to pay a fine of 10,000 euros for damage to the image. Following the prosecutor’s requisitions, the criminal court issued an arrest warrant against the fugitive defendant. "He goes back and forth between France and Morocco where his parents live," his lawyer had confided last December, before explaining that his client had fled for fear of retaliation.

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In addition, a judge for the enforcement of sentences had revoked the suspended sentence of six months in prison in the context of a conviction for domestic violence. Soufyène had meanwhile sent a letter to the court, explaining that he had "sunk into depression and suffered threats from people. This situation pushed me to lock myself up at home. I lost everything, my wife, my children, my house..." The public prosecutor’s office seized his house in Beaumont-sur-Oise as criminal assets. A confiscation confirmed by the court. He is also prohibited from practicing the profession of real estate agent, reports la Gazette du Val d’Oise.

The case came to light in February 2023 following an alert launched by Damien and Marie, a couple from the Oise. They had contacted their notary to inform him that their 32,000 € deposit had not been paid. They also launched an appeal on social networks, and discovered that there were other people in the same situation as them. A collective was then set