Luxury bags and clothes... A former Saudi princess accuses a fake doctor of having cheated her
She considered him a friend, but it seems he played her. Naela Al Rasheed, ex-wife of the Saudi prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, would have been the victim of one of her relatives, reports Le Parisien, Wednesday June 9. After two months spent in the south of France, in La Grande-Motte, in the fall of 2020, the 47-year-old ex-princess finds her beautiful apartment, located on avenue George-V, in Paris, emptied of her household items. value. Furs, luxury watches, handbags... are missing. Amount of damage: more than one million euros.
The investigation by the Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) will direct suspicion towards one of his friends, whom he met two years earlier on the Côte d'Azur. The 60-year-old man then presented himself as a doctor at the Avignon hospital, a producer of truffles and olive oil, but also a freelancer in the world of auctions. As the Ile-de-France daily reports, only this last point is true. Another line on his CV: a conviction in 2013 for fraud, forgery and breach of trust.
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A painting of which Naela Al Rasheed was not aware, who did not hesitate to follow the advice of her friend to the letter. Like when he suggested that he go to recharge his batteries for long weeks in the South. It was precisely during this period that the fake doctor would have made a round trip between Avignon and the Parisian home of the native of Kuwait.
Two opposing versions
If he admitted to the investigators having "taken", 11 bags, about twenty jackets and furs, for the most part, of the Hermès brand, he refutes any notion of theft and affirms that his friend was aware of his actions. . Objects worth 450,000 euros that he would have only managed to sell for 18,000 euros online.
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Indicted for "theft by trickery", the suspect still denies the charges. "We had this project with the aim of making up for part of Naela's loss of income, largely due to the health crisis," he told Le Parisien. A version disputed by the lawyer of the former princess. "There was never any consultation between my client and the person in question about a possible sale of the objects in question", insists Me Corinne Giudicelli-Jahn. As for the resold goods, it would appear that nine of the eleven Hermès bags were in fact counterfeit. A new line of defense on which the defendant's lawyer intends to rely.
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