Allex6x6 is charged with fraud - found Guilty

Sentence given 31st March 1455.
Judge - Jellysnail

Allex6x6 was charged with the commission of fraud.

Bill of indictment

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It is hereby alleged that Allex6x6 has committed the crime of Economy Manipulation under Article 2.3.3 in Legal Corpus of Somerset, specifically by dumping goods. The specific law states:

Article 2.3.3. : Economy manipulation is defined as:
- hoarding goods;
- creating and abusing a monopoly;
- dumping goods on a market;

Evidence of the crime, dumping wood in Bath, a wood town on 23 Mar 2007, can be found here:

http://forum.renaissancekingdoms.com/viewtopic.php?t=23196&start=120

Allex6x6 has been recently found guilty of Fraud for economy manipulation on 30 Jan 2007.

The defendant has the right to defense counsel.

First defence pleading

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Frankly, I can not understand this law. How can I dump goods on a market, by selling 20 woods? You can accuse me about dumping goods on a market even if I sell one wood. Or anything else (I was accused by selling corn in a corn town). This is not fair. On the Bath market wasn't more than 20-25 woods. For an wood town is quite little. And I have sold that woods, in 3 days. I was sure that in this way I am helping this town. If I had knew that you would be bothered about that wood, I could sell it somewhere else. There are some towns where I could easily sell it. But I think it doesn't matter. You would accuse by something else anyway. And you will find me guilty whatever I say, because this is the way your justice works.

Prosecutor indictment

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Your Honor,

Allex6x6 has clearly been selling wood in Bath at 4,00 each, a price posted in the Town Hall Mayor’s Message as Bath’s support price for wood. Also posted in the Town Hall Mayor’s Message is the following statement, which has been there since it was posted in Town Hall announcements on the RK forum, 19 Feb 2007 (http://forum.renaissancekingdoms.com/viewtopic.php?t=16171&start=60):

“Trade is welcome in Bath. However, please mail me first to make sure that what you are bringing is not already in gross overproduction. Selling something that is already in overproduction can be considered "dumping."”

I, as the current Mayor, never received any kind of correspondence from Allex6x6 to let me know what he was doing. He states that there is only 20-25 wood on the market at any one time. This is done purposely to avoid flooding the market. In current inventory, between Town Hall and grants, Bath currently has 524 wood bushels – far from a wood shortage. I maintain the number of axes available in the forest according to the needs of the town – for both domestic use and trade. Wood from outside the town throws this balance grossly off.

Evidence of the crime, dumping wood in Bath, a wood town on 23 Mar 2007, can be found here:

http://forum.renaissancekingdoms.com/viewtopic.php?t=23196&start=120

Allex6x6 has been recently found guilty of Fraud for economy manipulation on 30 Jan 2007. He was convicted of dumping and speculation in Bridgewater and Bath. The specifics may be found here:

https://somerset.rpg-board.net/The-library-c9/Judicial-archive-f38/Allex6x6-Fraud-Guilty-t76.htm

As a repeat offender, I ask for a heavy sentence, as stated in Article 2.1.4 of the Legal Corpus of Somerset:

Art. 2.1.4. : A repeat offense will face a higher degree of sentencing.

Thank you,

ArcaneJill de Grey
Mayor of Bath

Last defence pleading

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Your Honor,

I would like to start my pleading with the definition of "dumping". This definition should be included in the law book, for anyone to read it.

"Dumping (pricing policy) is a practice of selling in another market at a price which is lower than the price or cost in your home market. Dumping may be without motive or may have such economic purposes as putting rival suppliers out of business."

ArcaneJill, if he were such a good citizen, after he had saw my wood on the market, he could send me a mail asking me to stop selling wood because there is overproduction. Or better, he could put on sale its 500 woods at a bigger price, let's say 4.50 or 5.00 and I wouldn't sell wood anymore. At this price, people could easily sell their wood at 4.00 like before. About the mail that I should sent to him, you could imagine their opinion about me and the answer that they would give me.

Rosalyne and ArcaneJill have brought several times as argument against me that I was found guily in the past. You can not condamn me for facts that I have already got my punishment. The other days I saw in Wiltshire a lawsuit of a man who was been found guilty for economy manipulation, he had bought and resold the same goods on the same market. He receveid a 9 pounds fine, 9! And I have got 300 pounds for what? Economy manipulation and dumping corn in Bridgewater market. Dumping meaning a quantity of corn sold at the market price, the same
thing as in this case. And that corn was farmed in my corn fields. I think this was not justice.

I would like to answer to Rosalyne acusations too. She said I ruined Barnstaple market. It's not true. All I have bought from Barnstaple, I have done with mr Fabrizio permision, my mayor. Even wood. He will confirm my words, even if he is occupied to lead a town properly, not to stay in a court of justice with absurd accusations. I am asking her to bring proves to sustain her accusation about my frauds she is speaking about. I have payed for my mistakes once and I have learned from them. She cannot accuse me without a proof. There must be made a law about this situation, against the slander, so I can make a complaint against her.

“Selling something that is already in overproduction can be considered "dumping.” How you see, this is the Bath message. When I sold the wood, there was no overproduction of this material. I had no ideea about 500 woods he is speaking about. He will say that I should send him a mail. I should should respect the law! And that’s all I have to do. And what about the words “can be considered”? Is or is not dumping selling something in an overproduction knowns only by the mayor?

Finally, I will return to first paragraph, at the definition of dumping.I had done nothing from what is founded there. I have sold that wood at the market price, I had no intention to put anyone out of the business and the price wasn't lower than in my home market. Also, there was a small quantity. So, if the definition of dumping from above is correct, I consider me not guilty and I hope you will think the same.

Thank you.

The prosecutor called Rosalynn

Her statment:

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When previously a mayor for Bath, it was/is the usual procedure of the mayor and current grant holders, to buy the wood placed on the market at 4,00 as that is the price stipulated for the TH to buy from our loggers. In the past I too had bought wood from Allex6x6 as he had placed it at the buying price. However, it was never before in such a large amount.

In a previous case, https://somerset.rpg-board.net/The-library-c9/Judicial-archive-f38/Allex6x6-Fraud-Guilty-t76.htm Allex6x6 was found guilty on all charges relating to not only Bridgewater's market, but also Bath's.

He had skipped town after I had started collecting evidence from the Bath citizens so I held onto it in anticipation of further wrong-doing. Allex6x6 is a frequent visitor to Bath so ignorance of our normal practices cannot be claimed. At the time, Allex6x6 was buying goods off of Bath's market at low prices, then reselling them for higher.

I was recently in Barnstaple, from where Allex6x6 hails from. The Town Hall market had wood for sale for 3,90, and there was wood on their Player's market for less, which would make sense to help the bakers out. Now, recently, Cornwall county has been going through a wood crisis, Barnstaple is also a wood town. He's deprived them of wood their bakers need in order to profit from Bath.

Back to my point about Allex6x6 being a frequent visitor to Bath. By now, he is well-aware that Bath's resource is wood. The following has been in Mayor ArcaneJill's message since she has been in office: https://2img.net/h/i65.photobucket.com/albums/h207/rosalynn_rk/Mayor/mm-Arcanejill.jpg and there is no excuse for Allex6x6 to not have complied by now. He's been to Bath repeatedly as a trader. Failure to read the Mayor's Message in the towns he trades in, was of his own choosing.

This time, I believe more than just a fine is in order, as he seems not to have learned from the past.

Thank you for your time.

Lady Rosalynn Aviz-Halliwell

The prosecutor called Sierrajane

His statement:

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I testify that I bought wood from allex6x6 on 23 march 2007 and the evidence is here:

http://forum.renaissancekingdoms.com/viewtopic.php?p=630286#630286

Statement of accusation

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Allex6x6, on the 31 March 1455, I find you guilty for violating Article 2.3.3 in Legal Corpus of Somerset.

I advise you to look over your definition again because it is wrong, please if you wish to know send a mail to me.

Also, you cannot compare the two cases from Wiltshire for a couple of reasons. Wiltshire has different laws and he was accused of something different then you. You did your crime in two towns.

While it is true that you have already paid for that case, this is a different case and can be therefore considered a fresh case. If I could not start another case on someone who has already committed a crime, they could roam the lands and do whatever crime they wanted? This is what you’re saying.

Allex6x6, you don’t seem to learn from the previous case on 30 Jan 1455. Officially you have only disturbed Somerset citizens, but I have heard that on different occasions you have disturbed the peace in Somerset’s towns. Therefore I have asked the Duke of Somerset to give me the permission to exile you –

By order of the duke of Somerset, Jacques "Hypno" De Burgundy you are sentenced to three months of exile from Somerset, if you come back in Somerset land, you will face charge for breaking this sentence and death sentence can be considered.

You have 3 days to leave Somerset. Do not come back until the three months are over.

Sentence to 3 months exile.