Overview

• He admitted raising nearly €500,000 through 37 online donation appeals between 2021 and October 2024, directing only a small fraction to humanitarian causes.
• He confessed to commercial fraud charges while rejecting allegations of gang-organized activity, prompting ongoing plea negotiations.
• The court has offered him a three-year prison term and conditional probation for his partner in return for their full confessions.
• Authorities seized €20,000 in cash, luxury watches, designer handbags and high-end vehicles, including a €71,600 BMW bought with funds from a “for Palestine” appeal.
• Separate investigations are under way into his simultaneous receipt of social welfare benefits and a money-laundering suspicion that first alerted authorities to his schemes.