jaylegroove
Well-known member
Hi folks,
The story is long. The story is obnoxious too. Weird. But totally true. And excellent news are coming. I'll try to make it as short as possible. At last, this leads to some EBMM-related news.
From 1997 to 2003, my wife and I had an Internet company (what we call a "dotcom"). During all the time, this company had excellent performance, always increasing twice its sales amount and net incomes year after year. Everything was OK, we had 15 trusty and friendly employees, and there was no trouble in our life.
Late 2002, for some reason that was never explained, the manager of our bank agency decided a woman (my wife) had nothing to do at the management of such a company, and that her part, being a woman, was sharpening her husband's socks and cleaning children's bottoms (sic). He asked her to leave the company, otherwise he would kill the company.
The fact is, he did. Using unorthodoxe and illegal methods and tricks, he led us to bankrupcy in no more than 3 months. (at this step, due to the company performance, you may figure out how many faults he committed to get that result)
So in 2003 we operated the liquidation of the company, and our personal incomes switched from € 8,000 / month to less than 1,000. We gave the Mercedes back since we were unable to pay for the credit, etc. etc. etc.
While doing the liquidation, with full agreement from the legal agent, we asked our lawyer to prosecute the bank. In Summer 2004, still nothing done from him, though the faults were obvious and official written and signed proofs were numerous.
We then decided to prosecute the bank on the penal way, and then, when convened by the judge, asked our lawyer to come on our side. He did. Though, the penal judge explained us that, besides all proofs, we were not safe from a weird decision from the attorney, who could decide not to prosecute. And if so, we would have no resort at all. He suggested we cancelled the penal prosecution and go the civil way. We took that road, and later events showed that was the right one.
Our lawyer was in charge to prepare the civil prosecution. One year later, still nothing done. We decided to get the papers back and find another lawyer. It took 5 lawyers' offices until we found the right one. At this time, we're in May 2005.
This lawyer did the prosecution immediately. Each time he was convened by the civil judge, the bank's lawyer would ask for a delay because "he would miss information". In the meanwhile, using another illegal trick, the bank and her lawyer tried to get some money from us (while we owe them nothing) and tried to have our house seized. They failed, but the purpose was clear : trying to put us completely down, so that we would become unable to prosecute.
Finally, my wife had our lawyer on the phone last Friday. He had very good news. Exasperated by the bank's lawyers's delay requests and unability to give any argument to answer the accusations, the judge decided she would now take her decision without any complementary elements, which means no defense for the bank, since they missed their chances of defense half a dozen times playing some obscurantist game.
Decision of the judge will be known in April, and things are clear now, the bank is soon KO on that round. The damage we suffered because of the bank is close to € 1,000,000. Though, I'm lucid enough not to believe I'll have that amount, neither have it on April 30. But normally 2008 will bring some sun in my sky, which means I will, AT LAST, be able to complete my EBMM collection.
Cheers, and sorry again for that long text,
Jean
The story is long. The story is obnoxious too. Weird. But totally true. And excellent news are coming. I'll try to make it as short as possible. At last, this leads to some EBMM-related news.
From 1997 to 2003, my wife and I had an Internet company (what we call a "dotcom"). During all the time, this company had excellent performance, always increasing twice its sales amount and net incomes year after year. Everything was OK, we had 15 trusty and friendly employees, and there was no trouble in our life.
Late 2002, for some reason that was never explained, the manager of our bank agency decided a woman (my wife) had nothing to do at the management of such a company, and that her part, being a woman, was sharpening her husband's socks and cleaning children's bottoms (sic). He asked her to leave the company, otherwise he would kill the company.
The fact is, he did. Using unorthodoxe and illegal methods and tricks, he led us to bankrupcy in no more than 3 months. (at this step, due to the company performance, you may figure out how many faults he committed to get that result)
So in 2003 we operated the liquidation of the company, and our personal incomes switched from € 8,000 / month to less than 1,000. We gave the Mercedes back since we were unable to pay for the credit, etc. etc. etc.
While doing the liquidation, with full agreement from the legal agent, we asked our lawyer to prosecute the bank. In Summer 2004, still nothing done from him, though the faults were obvious and official written and signed proofs were numerous.
We then decided to prosecute the bank on the penal way, and then, when convened by the judge, asked our lawyer to come on our side. He did. Though, the penal judge explained us that, besides all proofs, we were not safe from a weird decision from the attorney, who could decide not to prosecute. And if so, we would have no resort at all. He suggested we cancelled the penal prosecution and go the civil way. We took that road, and later events showed that was the right one.
Our lawyer was in charge to prepare the civil prosecution. One year later, still nothing done. We decided to get the papers back and find another lawyer. It took 5 lawyers' offices until we found the right one. At this time, we're in May 2005.
This lawyer did the prosecution immediately. Each time he was convened by the civil judge, the bank's lawyer would ask for a delay because "he would miss information". In the meanwhile, using another illegal trick, the bank and her lawyer tried to get some money from us (while we owe them nothing) and tried to have our house seized. They failed, but the purpose was clear : trying to put us completely down, so that we would become unable to prosecute.
Finally, my wife had our lawyer on the phone last Friday. He had very good news. Exasperated by the bank's lawyers's delay requests and unability to give any argument to answer the accusations, the judge decided she would now take her decision without any complementary elements, which means no defense for the bank, since they missed their chances of defense half a dozen times playing some obscurantist game.
Decision of the judge will be known in April, and things are clear now, the bank is soon KO on that round. The damage we suffered because of the bank is close to € 1,000,000. Though, I'm lucid enough not to believe I'll have that amount, neither have it on April 30. But normally 2008 will bring some sun in my sky, which means I will, AT LAST, be able to complete my EBMM collection.
Cheers, and sorry again for that long text,
Jean
