Luck Mervil is being claimed for nearly half a million

Luck Mervil is being claimed for nearly half a million dollars

Fallen artist Luck Mervil is being sued for nearly half a million dollars by an investor who accuses him of dragging him into a dubious fiber optics project in Africa.

“Everything points to him being the mastermind behind this operation […]. He used tricks and lies to thwart the plaintiff’s right to his monetary assets,” according to a recent civil lawsuit filed by Victor Stanley Management Inc., which Mervil disputes.

According to the court document, the whole affair began in the summer of 2020 when Mervil allegedly approached the company about investing in a business project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It involved investing $1.2 million in a French company planning to build a fiber optic network in this Central African country.

” [Mervil] alleges that the company was valued at $12 million by an independent French firm and that there could be $1 billion in damage,” the civil lawsuit reads.

According to these statements, Victor Stanley Management Inc. reportedly made an initial payment of $320,000. However, all those fine words would have turned out to be air, according to the court document.

After checks, it appears that the French company has not received any government contracts, contrary to claims.

Worse still, the equipment for this project consisted of “two used antennas in poor condition and equipment that was in a post office,” found Victor Stanley Management Inc. while traveling in Africa.

“Additionally, each time plaintiff sought an account of the use of funds, plaintiff was entitled to a number of apologies and/or questionable documents,” the lawsuit reads.

Convinced that it had been defrauded, Victor Stanley Management Inc. therefore filed a lawsuit, seeking almost half a million dollars in damages from Mervil, as well as from his company Gestion Lucknerson Inc.

In this case, an application for confiscation of the ex-singer’s house had even been made to the Laval court, which has since been overturned by a judge.

For his part, Mervil, who has stayed out of the spotlight since his 2018 sexual exploitation conviction, has defended himself against any guilt.

“I categorically deny having acted fraudulently in this case,” he said in an affidavit.

At the same time, 54-year-old Mervil stressed that “in 2011 there was never a scam related to Vilaj Vilaj,” a foundation dedicated to building model villages in Haiti, which had been plagued by controversy regarding Funds that disappeared and no longer exist.

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