Geens case is one of the biggest scams on the wine ever discovered in France. Roger Geens have elapsed mediocre wines in prestigious appellations for decades. The man is 78 years old today and, following a stroke, is now in a Monaco hospital. He will not attend his trial
Affair Geens. Correctional trial after 14 years of instruction
In 2002, nearly 200 agents of fraud, police and gendarmes arrive on several farms owned by several companies of the group Geens. Mr. Geens is suspected of having set up one of the biggest deception in wine. The scam was well organized, the authorities find on-site false labels, castles inventions but also chemicals.
unscrupulous employees did not hesitate to add here the orange blossom to give fragrance to white wines, there glycerin to “round off” the red wines or raw milk to disguise the acidity. For years the Belgian businessman, who owned more than 1,000 hectares of vineyards and was working 600 employees, will send to Belgium and Northern Europe of “plonk” he was impersonating the great vintages, with the complicity of a transport company.
a damage estimated at 20 million
an employee finally denounce the scam in 2002 and it took 14 years of education before Roger Geens is finally sent to the Bordeaux Criminal court for “ deception about the nature, the substantial quality, origin or quantity of the goods .”
Thursday prosecutor requested the maximum sentence that the law provides for a breach of the code of consumption, or 2 years suspended sentence. The date of the deliberations is 29 June
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