looks back on the life of Gilbert Chikli, one of France’s best-known crooks, who managed to extort millions from the French elite via his sole asset — his voice,” the official Netflix synopsis explains.
“He fooled his victims by imitating and disguising himself as Jean-Yves le Drian, the then French Minister of Defence, and persuading them to voluntarily transfer him more than €80 million.”As for Chikli, an example of the kind of hustle he’d attempt: Imagine that it’s an ordinary day in Paris in 2017. You’re the director of France’s chamber of commerce, and you’ve just gotten a call from the country’s minister of defense. Soon enough, you see his face right there in front of you, and in that video call he has an urgent request: Might the chamber be able to transfer 2 million euros to a mysterious bank account to aid in hostage negotiations in Mali?Before you roll your eyes, first replay all that back in your mind. It’s not just a phone call.
The Netflix documentary, ultimately, ends up being an origin story of sorts about the Paris-born Frenchman described as “the king of the scam.” Says Chikli: “Me, I have had money, and I always will have. So I really think it was all a game.
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