Originally Posted by
runway30
Because they have left an audit trail with landing fees, fuel and hotel being paid for.
You have a good point there. But it would seem that he did pay himself those bills , just using someone else credit card. A lawyer might argue that he was merely borrowing a friend credit card and , just like cash being borrowed , and he intended to repay the owner of the credit card. Highly unlikely I grant you that and in addition in France at least using someone else credit card is illegal. But who is held responsible for using the card, the one that gave the card or the one using it ?
Anyway the AAIB will probably not going to investigate this as it falls outside their level of expertise and it is anyway outside the scope of ICAO Annex 13 , this is for the criminal investigation to do I would say, if there is a criminal investigation..