Revenge Porn and Greed at the Highest Level of Trust Met with Jail Terms

Embarrassing Nude Photos sent in Revenge? The Court Acts

Nicknamed “revenge porn”, there has been a plague of it since the ability to easily send photos over the Internet and the advent of social media which encourages sharing photos. Sharing is innocent until it involves the most intimate moments which have become all too easy to photo. 

A man in Nice, after being rejected by a lover, retaliated by sending intimate nude photos of her with him to her new companion. 

That’s a crime. His defence – a single despairing act restricted to sending the photo to her new lover, with no thought of revenge. He claimed all the nude images he had had had been consented to by his X-lover and had now been deleted. His “X” claimed she was never aware he had taken any nude photos of her. It was disputed whether the culprit had circulated the photos to friends and others in his network. The man denied it. 

The Prosecution sought a six-month suspended prison sentence; also to avert any potential similar acts tantamount to revenge. The Court reduced the actual sentence to two months – enough to make the defendant think twice about repeating what is a serious and damaging invasion of privacy. 

Impulsive Theft at Work Quickly Reimbursed. How would it End!

A young lady, working as a secretary for retail outlets in Monaco had inexplicably made off with over 6.000 euros opportunistically – one time, for example, hiding cash in her underwear when in the bathroom. She was a hard worker and appreciated by her boss but who became suspicious none-the-less. 

Eventually he filed a complaint with the Court. Since then the money had been rapidly repaid by the culprit out of a loan with her family. She had never profited personally from the thefts. Rather she had bought presents for an aged family member and similarly in showing off to her friends. 

No sign of dishonesty in her past, no desperate need to steal in the present ….. the whole affair looked like a foolish aberration. This was indeed the conclusion of the Court and belatedly by the employer who filed the complaint. 

Clemency led to her being let off with just a 1000 euro fine. Luckily her career prospects remained intact. 

Greed in a Senior Trusteed Position – Over 125.000 euros Misappropriated

A serious breach of honour was committed by a high level administrator of Trusteed Funds in Monaco. There were a series of offenses including the transfer of over 125.000 euros from the Fund to his own account. And it didn’t stop there; he managed to divert the proceeds from the sale of a vehicle to his account too. Then leveraging his expertise with documents he even falsified his own salary with a forged order to increase it …. ending up with monthly pay from various trusteed sources of over 12.000 euros. The misappropriated funds helped him buy property in France and the U.S. 

It was eventually discovered and his defence was that he had a serious manic-depressive mental disorder ….. and he pleaded for clemency as he was already experiencing the consequences of his actions, being no longer employable in Monaco. The Judge was however inclined to believe he was narcissistically well aware of what he had been doing to enrich himself illegally. The sentence: 2 years in prison, suspended