Brother of Kim Kardashian’s chauffeur among four charged over £8million armed robbery in Paris

THE brother of Kim Kardashian's chauffeur is among four people charged over her £8million gunpoint robbery in Paris.

Gary Madar, 27, along with 44-year-old Florus H, are accused of tipping off the thieves about Kim’s whereabouts last October.

Madar worked for the same car service company as his chauffeur brother Michael Madar, 40, who drove Kardashian about Paris before the robbery.

Michael was released earlier this week. There is no suggestion he has anything to do with the heist. 

One of those also charged – identified only as Yunice A, 63 – is said to have been one of the five hooded assailants who actually entered the reality TV star’s flat in the French capital while she was asleep in bed.

The gang is said to have bound and gagged the 36-year-old mother of two, and then made off with £8.5m worth of jewellery.

Yunice A. is a well known ‘career criminal’ with previous convictions for aggravated theft and for drug trafficking, according to judicial sources.

He now faces another trial for armed robbery in an organised gang, and kidnapping as a member of the same group.

The October 3rd 2016 heist is said to have involved a network of other criminals, and three of them account for the other defendants charged.

Madar and Florus H. accordingly face charges of "complicity in armed robbery and kidnapping in an armed gang".

The fourth man charged is Marceau B, 64, who is said to have travelled to Antwerp, Europe’s diamond capital, to dispose of the jewels.

He has been indicted for concealment of stolen goods in an organised gang, and criminal association.

Marceau B. is also a career criminal, with more than 10 convictions behind him, including one in 1998 for possession and transport of counterfeit money, and one for aggravated theft.

Marceau B. was released from prison at the end of 2011 and charged six months later in a forgery case, but was finally acquitted last summer.

‘Marceau the Gypsey’ is said to have travelled to Antwerp with ‘Old Omar’, another suspect still in custody in the days after the robbery.

Telephones owned by the two suspects were tracked to the Belgian port town.

‘Old Omar’ was dragged from his bed in Creteil, a suburb in south-east Paris, along with his two sons, on Monday morning.

The 60-year-old's fingerprints are said to have been found on plastic ties used to bind Ms Kardashian's hands.

‘Marceau the Gypsy’ was detained at a Roma site on the outskirts of the French capital.

The robbers made off with Ms Kardashian’s 20-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring worth £3.5million and a case of jewellery with a value of £5.24million.

The heist was France's biggest jewellery theft involving a private citizen in more than two decades.

Beyond the four men charged by an instructing judge late on Thurday, six suspects remain in custody, and are expected to be charged on Friday.

They include Didier Dubreucq, a convicted drug runner nicknamed 'Blue Eyes'.

In 2003, Dubreucq was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for his role in a drug smuggling case involving Prince Nayef Bin Fawaz al-Shaalan, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch, Abdulaziz.

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