A 56 -year -old winemaker occurs on Tuesday before the Reims Criminal Court, accused of having produced and sold by false champagne, which manufactured in the Aisne based on Spanish wines and Ardèche added with aromas and carbon dioxide.
The fraud, which lasted a year between 2022 and 2023, was estimated at 800,000 bottles, or even more. The case had exploded in the summer in the summer of 2023 after the reports of the manager of a secondary winemaker production site in Aisne.
“I did not enriched,” he said, saying that he had acted in this way to honor a contract he had with the escapult, the center of purchase of Leclerc supermarket of which he was one of the suppliers, and that he put “a sacred pressure,” according to him. According to the comments reported by the Journal L’Ancion champagne, the businessman talks about bottles at a price of 8.50 euros.
“I was caught”
There is no doubt to wear the hat alone: ”Everyone was aware, everyone participated, they all had great salaries and they were all enjoying,” the entrepreneur told the helm. Particularly the former person in charge of his wine site in Aisne, one of the civil parties in his trial, who said he had fired in April 2023 because she wanted to make him sing.
His wife, also 56 years old and judged by his side, admitted Tuesday that he participated in fraud, but without support. “I was caught, I was afraid,” he said. The couple is currently in divorce process.
The customs component of the case that contains the exports of the false champagne was postponed until February 3, 2026. The entrepreneur, judged in particular fraud, the usurpation of the name of origin and the abuse of corporate goods, also faces another legal procedure for accusations of sexual violence by several of its employees, whose five of whom complained.
He was also imprisoned for several months in Morocco in 2024 for an unknown verification box, while trying to recover in this country by launching a fruit and vegetable production company and investing in a restaurant.
Source: BFM TV
