Lawyer Matthieu Croizet, who is defending one of them, French businessman Jean-Francois Ott, has an idea on the matter: "Maybe it's because the money deposited in this company didn't have a legal existence in the country of the people who had given it to management? he wonders. If you deposit money that is not declared in a management box and suddenly you lose it, you can't complain because that money doesn't exist!"
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