He was not present this Friday morning during the deliberation. Judged last June 18 for “abuse of corporate assets, bankruptcy, fraud and tax evasion”, André-Paul Miller, 53, was found guilty and sentenced to 30 months in prison, including 18 months with a probationary suspension, a fine € 100,000 and a ban on managing any business for a period of 15 years.
Having been provisionally detained for two months, in 2015, the fifty-year-old Nancy, former professor of physics, could benefit from a modification of sentence. He will also have to pay more than € 500,000 to around thirty civil parties, represented by Mr.e Nicolas Pasina.
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The end of the reign of fossil fuels
André-Paul Miller had paid into his personal accounts 1.7 M € of the 2.8 M € entrusted to him by investors convinced that he had reached the Grail: to develop a revolutionary process for storing electricity. An invention which signified the end of the reign of fossil fuels and which therefore had to change the world.
One of the people who had trusted him blindly explained that he had seen the famous machine: “It was like a box of shoes. He showed me that it was charged then he emptied it in front of me with a short circuit. Then he plugged it into an electrical outlet for 10 seconds and then unplugged it. He then told me that he could now take out whatever he wanted in power. He plugged in a halogen on his machine and it lasted more than a minute! Logically, in 10 seconds, there is no time to charge a battery. It stuck me… ”.
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Challenges of magistrates
For the prosecution, the investors’ money had been used by André-Paul Miller for personal purposes, in particular to finance a very high standard of living. The man has already appealed against this first instance judgment. Since the hearing, he has also filed a motion to challenge the three magistrates who made up the criminal court which tried him. This action was rejected by a magistrate of the Court of Appeal who sentenced André-Paul to a civil fine. This time the latter therefore seized the Court of Cassation with a request to challenge the magistrate of the Court of Appeal …
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