Successful comedian and director Dany Boon recently lost a lot of money after being defrauded by a fake Irish lord, as revealed by the Capital site on Monday July 25, 2022.
Unstoppable headliner of French cinema since the incredible cardboard of Welcome to the Ch’tis in 2008, who brought him a small fortune along the way, Dany Boon was recently the victim of a scam, in which he lost several million euros. This is the website Capital which revealed that the comedian/director was tricked by a fake when Irish, having given him the promise of fabulous investments. Mainly known as Terry Birles, the scammer in question was first hired by Dany Boon in order to provide him with services for his yacht.
The 56-year-old French actor would then have invested more than 2.2 million euros to refurbish his boat, via a company, the South Sea Merchant’s MAriners Ltd Partnership (SSMM), which the family of Terry Birles would have created a hundred years ago. According to Dany Boon’s lawyer, who obtained a temporary freeze of the assets of the fake Irish lordthe comedian would have been the victim of a “elaborate fraud“, using a network of companies established in Ireland, but also in other jurisdictions. Concretely, Terry Birles offered Dany Boon to invest in a scheme affiliated with the Central Bank of Irelandmaking him believe that it would allow him to obtain annual interest of 3.25% tax-free.
Dany Boon victim of a scam at 6.7 million euros
In total, the director of Welcome to the Ch’tis would have injected no less than 4.5 million euros in this case, making a payment for the benefit of the company the fake lord had previously told him about for his yacht. Ultimately, an investigation showed that it was a front company, and that Dany Boon’s millions would have been transferred to accounts in South Korea or Panama. For the moment, the actor has still not seen the 6.7 million euros he lost because of Terry Birles. Besides, the money that Dany Boon paid to the company of the false lord to renovate his boat could have in fact been used for a house of Terry Birles.
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