After having been on the victims’ bench at the trial of those accused of her cyberharassment, she must now find herself on that of the defendants. For previous activities. The former “queen of influencers” Magali Berdah will be tried this Monday afternoon in Nice alongside three other women for acts of “bankruptcy and money laundering” when she was the head of a brokerage company based in the Riviera capital, between 2014 and 2015.
The 42-year-old businesswoman was specifically referred to the Nice criminal court for “bankruptcy: keeping incomplete or irregular accounts” and “money laundering: assisting in an investment operation, concealment or conversion of the proceeds of a crime punished with a sentence not exceeding five years.
Liabilities estimated at nearly 2.5 million euros
Heard in police custody at the end of September in this case, Magali Berdah was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on management and an obligation to report while waiting for the hearing.
The alleged acts were allegedly “committed in Nice and Cannes, between January 30, 2014 and July 31, 2015, in particular in her capacity as de facto manager of SAS BA & CO placed in compulsory liquidation on July 30, 2015 with a liabilities estimated at nearly 2.5 million euros,” the public prosecutor then specified. The company in question, registered in Nice, had the purpose of “insurance brokerage, financial investment advice, banking operations intermediary”.
It therefore predates the creation, in 2017, of the “e-influencer” agency Shauna Events, which had made Magali Berdah a figure in this controversial environment and a target of campaigns of insults and threats on social networks. At the beginning of December, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested prison sentences, sometimes with suspended sentences, against thirteen defendants tried for having taken part in his cyberharassment.