French Car Fraud Ring Sentenced for Selling Luxury Vehicles in Morocco

C.K. and his wife, A. N. are the three people involved in this fraud case. The first is the organizer of the fraud. The third is the "transporter" who concluded deals of deception with car sellers. They presented themselves under false identities. They used borrowed names like Nicolas Clovis, Henri Farinier or Benoît Ratelier.

Their modus operandi is to meet sellers of large cars, with whom they have made contact via the classifieds. They offer to buy their car with blank checks. The sales take place every Saturday in train stations in France. Once the sale is concluded, the "transporter" is responsible for driving the cars to Morocco where they are resold four times cheaper.

The two men were prosecuted by about twenty victims. The court sentenced C.K. to 5 years in prison plus 5 months in prison for using a borrowed name, reports Sud Ouest. A.N., for his part, was sentenced to three years in prison plus three months in prison for using the name of a third party, without a committal order. They were ordered to reimburse their victims up to 500,000 euros.

As for the third defendant, C.K.’s wife, she was sentenced to six months in prison with a suspended sentence and two years of probation for her involvement in five scams out of the 25 identified.