The court has decided. Amel Bent, pregnant with her third child, discovers this Thursday, January 27, 2022 the fate that awaits her husband. Patrick Antonelli had, as a reminder, been the instigator of the vast driving license scam from which celebrities had benefited between October 2013 and January 2015. After a first conviction, he appealed. And the court ruled this Thursday, January 27, 2022.
In July 2020, he was tried for “corruption”, “fraudulent modification of a data system” and “fraudulent obtaining of an administrative document” by the Nanterre criminal court and sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended without probation and deferred committal mandate as well as to pay a fine of 100,000 euros. Patrick Antonelli then appealed this decision. This Thursday, January 27, 2022, six months later, the Versailles Court of Appeal sentences him to three years in prison including two years suspended. A reduced sentence.
Maître Thomas Lemarié, one of Patrick Antonelli’s lawyers, did not wish to react to the outcome of the hearing.
Recall that Rabiah Benrais, who was responsible for making changes to the National Driver’s License File to open the right to pink paper to Patrick Antonelli’s customers, had been sentenced to a three-year sentence, two of which were suspended and 40,000 euros fine had been imposed on him. She hadn’t called. But this Thursday, January 27, 2022, the case of a former official of the prefecture, suspected of having perpetuated the fraud system after the departure of Ms. Benrais from the prefecture in April 2014, was studied: she was released.
Several personalities have also been involved in this case of false permits. Indeed, among the clients of Patrick Antonelli, who is prohibited from exercising a commercial and industrial profession, the names of stars had come out like the journalist Ali Baddou or the footballers Jérémy Menez and Layvin Kurzawa.
The investigation revealed that no less than 258 fraudulent permits were issued. At around 8000 euros per pink paper, the amount of the scam amounts to “to a total amount of 400,000 euros“, a number “at least“according to the parquet floor of Nanterre.
For the 12 months firm which have therefore become enforceable, Patrick Antonelli should request a sentence adjustment from the judge or wear an electronic bracelet.