Playboy Poker Player, Fraudster Arnaud Mimran Gets 13 Years for Kidnapping

The Daniel Chester French fraudster, socialite and high-stakes poker game player Arnaud Mimran has been sentenced to 13 years inward prison for masterminding the 2016 kidnap of a Swiss financier.

Mimran was already serving an eight-year sentence for “the rig of the century,” as it was dubbed past French media. This was a dupery committed inwards 2008 and 2009 that bilked the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme come out of €300 meg ($345 million).

Mimran is also accused inward deuce divide murder cases.

The 49-year-old Frenchman’s bank accounts were already frozen inwards Jan 2015 because of the EU Emissions tax fraud when he arranged to fulfill the financier, Yomi Rodrig, inwards a western sandwich capital of France suburb.

Rodrig was bundled into a machine past a gang up led by a piece named Sabir “Titax” Titouh and forced to buy millions of shares in a casing accompany called Cassidy Ventures Inc, controlled past Mimran.

Bizarre Kidnapper Demands

When Goldman Sachs called Rodrig back up to say they would not read the patronage because it was “bizarre,” his kidnappers forced him to purchase the shares through a smaller broker the next day. The daytime after that, Titouh was shot idle on his doorstep.

Suddenly missing a leader, the connive fell aside and his kidnappers let Rodrig go. They told him he was lucky because he had been earmarked to live killed. Rodrig had been held for half dozen days and was forced to buy $2.6 1000000 inward shares, although his kidnappers had wanted more.

Three other defendants were sentenced to between tetrad and ogdoad years for their roles inwards the plot.

Mimran denied having knowledge of the kidnapping. He had told the court of law he had discussed finding ways to pull in investors with Titouh but had no thought the latter intended to use up such drastic measures.

Tabloid Favorite

Mimran erstwhile dated Paraguayan supermodel Claudia Galanti and was a fixture inwards the rumourmonger pages of French people tabloids. Before his arrest, he hobnobbed with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Primarily a high-stakes hard currency gamy player, his highest tournament destination was 13th at the EPT Monte Carlo in 2006. At the clip of his arrest, he had running upwardly debts of $6 billion at the Wynn Las Vegas, according to royal court filings.

Mimran was detained for carbon-credit assess hoax the mean solar day after Titouh was found dead. He was a fellow member of a aggroup that took vantage of a loophole inward the assess scheme between various EU countries to avoid paying value-added revenue enhancement (VAT), similar to sales assess inwards the US, on the international trading of C credits.

The French governing has said it missed €1.6 one million million ($1.9 billion) because of the loophole. The add loss to all EU states is estimated to be €5 to €10 one million million ($6 1000000000000 to $12 billion).

Prosecutors trust Mimran murdered his partner inward crime in 2010, a Gallic Israeli conman named Samy Souied.

They also accuse him of the bump off of his father-in-law, 76-year-old billionaire hotelman and fine art dealer Claude Dray, who was crack drained at his rest home inward 2011.

Mimran tried to wipe out himself after he returned to his electric cell followers his sentencing Friday, according to the AFP. He was ease hospitalized as of Sunday, his lawyer said.