Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, swept away by the Covid-19 six days apart, were to be tried on Thursday January 20 for “vulnerable person fraud”.
After the emotion due to the sudden disappearance of the famous Bogdanoff twins, comes the return of legal cases. Igor and Grichka were to be tried, as of this Thursday, January 20, for “vulnerable person scam”, as reported BFMTV. The brothers having died on December 28 and January 3, the trial will take place without them before the Paris Criminal Court. Four other individuals will be on the dock.
Indicted in 2021 for “vulnerable person scam”, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are suspected of having defrauded Cyrille Pien, a millionaire suffering from bipolar disorder, by involving him in the project to revive their flagship show, “Time X”. . If two of the accused will be absent, the victim too, because Cyrille Pien committed suicide during the investigation by throwing himself from the cliffs of Étretat, August 31, 2018.
1.5 million euros in checks
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff met Cyrille Pien in 2017. A strong friendship was quickly created which prompted the wealthy hotelier to pay large sums to the Bogdanoffs. He will give 160,000 euros in cash to the twins and sign them 1.5 million euros in checks. Objective: to relaunch their show on YouTube, to buy a Gazelle helicopter from Igor or to finance half of the acquisition of his Parisian villa, according to the investigating judge.
Cyrille Pien stops giving money to the Bogdanoffs in 2017 when the bank alerts the justice system. According to information from HuffPost, lMedical experts had established before his suicide that Cyrille Pien had stopped his treatment, which would have made him more easily influenced.
Who are the other four defendants?
Igor and Bogdanoff absent, the trial will still be held for four other defendants. Among them, Tanguy Ifoku, son of a Congolese diplomat, also close to the twins. But also a film producer, his daughter and a Parisian lawyer, who appear for having taken advantage of the fortune of Cyrille Pien to produce a film, The fruit of hope, examined by justice. Released in cinemas in 2018, this film had two famous names in its distribution, those of the Bogdanoff brothers.