He pays his lawyer with a wooden check: a repeat offender Italian manager sentenced in Monaco
Updated on 03/16/2022 at 12:04
Published on 03/16/2022 at 12:07
The lawyer has been waiting for his payment for a year.
He pays his lawyer with a wooden check: a repeat offender Italian manager sentenced in Monaco
03/16 at 12:07 p.m.
Update 03/16 at 12:04
Already known to justice for the same facts, an Italian manager had drawn up a bad check for nearly 10,000 euros to his lawyer. The defendant, absent at the bar, has just been sentenced in Monaco.
The activity of lawyer, like most of the liberal professions, encounters difficulties in the face of rebellious clients on the payment of their debts. The most recalcitrant are brought to justice.
A similar case was raised before the criminal court. With the warning of an Italian manager of a company which no longer has any activity in the Principality and which is impossible to locate. He was also absent from the hearing.
Already sentenced for
similar facts
However, he still owes the sum of 9,114 euros to a lawyer in Monaco since March 15, 2021. The date when this defender was informed of the return of an unpaid check! Because it had been drawn on an account closed a few days before for a significant debit for several months.
According to President Florestan Bellinzona (Assessors: Mr. Ludovic Leclerc and Mrs. Virginie Hoflack., editor’s note), this Italian was not at his first attempt. In 2021, he was sentenced to a fine of 800 euros for a bad check.
It is a nauseating file for Me Thomas Brezzo, whose task was to defend the interests of the civil party.
“What a strange way to claim a lawyer mandated to ensure the protection of his client, claiming an apartment and the company in pain”.
The amount of the debt and the sum of an additional 2,000 euros for the damage suffered were invoiced.
He will have to pay
12,000 euro fine
The first substitute Julien Pronier even revealed “that we come close enough to a fraud offense to have withdrawn the amount of a check of 25,000 euros before ignoring a significant liability. This deserves a fine of 10,000 euros”.
The court returned to fairer proportions with a default sentence of 2,000 euros and the payment equivalent to the amount claimed by the civil party with a total sum of 12,000 euros.
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He pays his lawyer with a wooden check: a repeat offender Italian manager sentenced in Monaco