This Thursday, January 20, 2022, four people are preparing to be tried for having defrauded a certain Cyrille Pien, who committed suicide in 2018. A case at the heart of which were the late Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, who died on December 28 and January 3 due to Covid-19.
It is a particular trial that will take place today, at the Paris court. The main victim, a 53-year-old man who made his fortune in the hotel industry, as well as the Bogdanoff brothers died. The twins who died of the coronavirus at the age of 72 were indicted in 2018 for “vulnerable person scam” and “attempted scam”. Facts they have always denied. No longer of this world to defend themselves, their lawyers Maîtres Édouard De Lamaze and Éric Morain will give the president of the court their death certificates as revealed by our colleagues from Parisian. “The judges will note the extinction of the public action against them“, specifies the site.
Once this procedure has been completed, the Bogdanoff lawyers will follow the rest of the hearing without intervening, as explained by Me Édouard De Lamaze. A decision taken in consultation with the relatives of the accused. “We will remain attentive to what is said during the trial so that the memory of Igor and Grichka is not tarnished.“, however, specified Me Éric Morain.
Remember that Igor and Grichka were accused of having tried to defraud Cyrille Pien, to settle their financial worries and relaunch Time X, the science fiction show that made them famous in the 80s and which was to return to C8. They would also have wanted him to acquire a helicopter or have him participate in the purchase of Igor’s former house for 750,000 euros. No less than 1.5 million euros were paid in eighteen months, from the beginning of 2017 to June 2018.
The prosecution accused the twins, with the complicity of a certain Tanguy Ifoku, of having placed Cyrille “under the influence“to train him in”chimerical projects“. The wealthy former hotelier, suffering from a manic-depressive psychosis (who had stopped his treatment in the summer of 2017), committed suicide from the cliffs of Étretat on August 31, 2018. “I am in great pain, enough is enough. (…) They made me believe mountains and wonders“, he had told the police shortly before his gesture.