Luck Merville claimed nearly half a million dollars

An investor who allegedly lured fallen artist Luc Merville into a dubious fiber optic project in Africa is suing for nearly half a million dollars.

“Everything points to him being the mastermind of this operation […]. He used tricks and lies to frustrate plaintiff’s right to his pecuniary assets,” reads a recently filed civil lawsuit by Victor Stanley Management Inc., which Merville contested.

According to a court document, the entire affair began in the summer of 2020 when Merville approached the company to invest in a business project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has invested US$1.2 million in a French company that plans to deploy a fiber optic network in this Central African country.

” [Mervil] The civil suit said the company was valued at US$12 million by an independent French firm and could potentially fall to a billion dollars.

Pursuant to these representations, Victor Stanley Management Inc. Said to have made an initial payment of US$320,000. However, as the court document suggests, all these fine words turned into nothing.

After inspections, it appears that the French company did not get government contracts contrary to what it said.

“poor conditions”

Even worse, Victor Stanley Management Inc. found that equipment for the project consisted of “two antennas in poor condition and equipment in the post office.” While traveling in Africa.

“Furthermore, every time the plaintiff seeks accountability on the use of funds, it is entitled to a series of excuses and/or questionable documents,” the suit pointed out.

Convinced that he had been cheated, Victor Stanley Management Inc. It therefore sued Merville, as well as his company, Management Luckerson Inc., for nearly half a million dollars in damages.

In this case, a request was also filed in Laval court to seize the former singer’s house, but it has since been canceled by a judge.

He “practically” denied it

Merville, who has been kept out of the limelight since being convicted of sexual assault in 2018, has pleaded not guilty to any wrongdoing on his part.

“I unequivocally deny any fraudulent conduct in this case,” he said in the affidavit.

At the same time, 54-year-old Merville insisted that “there was never any fraud in 2011 with regard to Vilaz Vilaz,” which was dedicated to building model villages in Haiti, about controversial funds that disappeared and no longer exist. .