The Truth Behind a Porsche Purchase: Golf Instructor’s Legal Battle

2024-03-13 20:23:00

A golf instructor buys a 1971 Porsche Targa for €82,249. Supporting invoices, he paid €160,000 in repairs… And he turned once morest the seller, a professional with a well-established international reputation, who has never had the slightest problem with the law and who is accused of “deception concerning the identity of the thing sold” on October 20, 2015 in Lasne.

At the criminal hearing on February 13, he received the support of the prosecutor of the king Magali Raes who, as she had done in chambers, considered the charge not established and requested acquittal. She got it.

It’s the unfortunate story of a 53-year-old from Waterloo, a golf teacher, who suddenly wanted to treat himself to the pleasure of driving behind the wheel of an ancestor and, his lawyer made no secret of it, to make a small profit when resold because, according to him, such a vehicle increases in value over time.

The transaction is therefore carried out. The seller bought the vehicle three days before, took a margin of €1,500 and resold it without warranty but with the original certificate of conformity.

The buyer found that the Porsche was not working properly. The restoration and repair work cost him €160,000 (27 invoices submitted) and the car, dismantled, is in his garage. After taking several steps, he ended up obtaining the certificate of authenticity in 2019.

“My customer was fooled, especially since the invoice is marked ‘matching member’, which means that the chassis, engine and gearbox numbers are the original ones and that no modifications have been made. place on these three points.” Does this mention provide added value? The issue was not resolved at the hearing.

For the prosecution, deception involves fraudulent maneuvers, lies, artifices, tricks which are not found in the file. The defendant’s lawyer was delighted: “No element constituting deception is found in the file and no contradictory expertise of the vehicle is produced by the complainant”. He says he is challenged by the timing chosen by the latter who only filed a complaint on August 13, 2020 and who, today, is demanding €20,000 from the defendant who is not happy with the following writing from the complainant: “In the absence of payment, your reputation will suffer.”

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