The first day of February 2017 was a day like any other for Paris executive Sophie Grenier. Then, a mysterious call lit up her phone. On the line was a man, whose voice she didn’t recognize, telling ...

The story of Gilbert Chikli sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood film: A boy from the working class neighborhood of Belleville in Paris, France, grows up to become one of the most ...

The court found that Gilbert Chikli, 54, and Anthony Lasarevitsch, 35 -- who denied the charges -- were the masterminds of the scam that saw three victims part with some 55 million euros ($62 million) ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Gilbert Chikli fooled dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of people out of millions of dollars simply by asking them for money over the phone. The Masked Scammer, a French ...

French investigators are probing whether a conman who became known as the “Fake Chairman” for scamming banks out of millions of dollars by posing as a top-ranking executive gave himself a promotion — ...

ASHDOD, Israel Gilbert Chikli was rolling in money, stolen from some of the world s biggest corporations. His targets: Accenture. Disney. American Express. In less than two years, he made off with at ...

Prosecutors on Wednesday called for sentences of 10 and 14 years for two alleged fraudsters accused of impersonating French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in a bizarre scam that saw one even wear ...

"Gilbert Chikli knows that China is a springboard to be able to bounce money off of," said the con man, who often spoke of himself in the third person. "It's not a secret.

“China has become a universal, international gateway for all manner of scams.” — Gilbert Chikli, a con man who stole millions from the world’s biggest corporations and laundered most of it through ...

"Gilbert Chikli knows that China is a springboard to be able to bounce money off of," said the con man, who often spoke of himself in the third person. "It's not a secret.