Paris tenant must pay €221,000 for unauthorised subletting on Airbnb


A tenant was ordered to pay his renters RM1.02mil after illegally subletting the apartment on AirBnB for four years, while still failing to pay his own rent. — REUTERS

In Paris, the tenant of a two-bedroom flat has been ordered to pay over €221,000 (RM1.02mil) after subletting it without permission via the Airbnb platform.

Between 2016 and 2020, the man had sublet the flat 329 times and collected around €198,000 (RM918,949), the sum he must now transfer to the owners of the flat according to the verdict, the newspaper Le Figaro reported on Monday.

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