Desperate for love, desperate also eventually for money to support her mother, a 25 year old young lady from Spain is mired in trouble in Monaco after a love affair in Dubai. In Dubai, a man seduced her and became her lover and pimp. The young lady continued to prostitute herself and was eventually lured to Monaco to meet him in the hope of deepening their love affair.
Her mistake was to consume the drugs in a bar in Monaco and attract the attention of the Police. During a check, the police noticed that she had three pouches of the same substance in her bag and an equal amount in her room. Suspected of drug use, she confessed during her police custody the purchase of 30 grams of drugs for a thousand euros in Spain.
Sad, fragile, rejected the Court recognized her predicament but has a no tolerance policy for drug use in Monaco. The Prosecution recommended a euro fine, emphasizing the case was about drug use not prostitution. Two waiters at a restaurant, prior to the pandemic, both with good salaries and tips were judged to have supplemented their income further by more than euros a month by diverting the takings.
Their ruse was to remove the evidence for bills that they had already charged to customers. They hid the bills later in the evening. The customers paid by credit card and the two men would siphon off an equal amount of cash from the till. The owner of the popular restaurant noticed his receipts dive but had difficulty pinning down the cause. Eventually a very detailed investigation aided by the police pointed to the fraud, which had been going on for two years.
Even the customers were contacted to verify the transactions. The defense put up quite a fight accusing the owner of diverting the cash himself to evade tax even of a plot to fire the two employees and replace them with cheaper workers. But the evidence from the detailed investigation convinced the court. The two waiters were given suspended sentences of eight and four months in prison, plus placed under probation for three years, and mandated to reimburse their boss and a joint payment of 30, euros.
