Bygmalion case, three former executives of the UMP, including Eric Cesari, of … – Le Parisien

Bygmalion case, three former executives of the UMP, including Eric Cesari, of … – Le Parisien

<- Hard dé e: 0.025606870651245 sec -> The investigation into the case Bygmalion just had a new episode. After the indictment Wednesday of the two co-founders and a part of society, it was the turn of three former executives of the UMP, including former Deputy General Manager Eric Cesari, to be Thursday morning placed in custody.
                  <- hard dé e: 0.0093920230865479 sec -> A new stage in the investigation of an alleged system of false invoices to support the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012, does one source close of the investigation.

Eric Cesari, who was nicknamed the “eye of Sarkozy” to the UMP, former director of financial affairs of the party Fabienne Liadze and former communications director Peter Chassat ” were arrested at their homes this morning, “and taken into custody at the anticorruption office in Nanterre, the source said.

Eric Cesari and Fabienne Liadze have both been accused by Jerome Lavrilleux , right Jean-Francois Cope and the UMP deputy campaign manager of Nicolas Sarkozy arm. He said they had participated in late May-early June, at a meeting with UMP to decide the implementation of the system of false invoices. The UMP has initiated mid-July dismissal proceedings for “serious misconduct” against Fabienne Liadzé and Eric Cesari.

In late June, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation for “forgery and use of false “” breach of trust “and” attempted fraud “. The investigation was referred to the judges of the financial hub of Paris, Serge Tournaire, Renaud van Ruymbeke and Roger Le Loire.

Uncovering a system of false invoices

Judges and police are investigating a system of false invoices, recognized by many stakeholders, to allow the campaign budget to Nicolas Sarkozy not to explode the cap on allowable expenses, c that is to say, 22.5 million euros.

For this, Event and Co. had charged many expenses to the UMP and not the campaign account of Sarkozy, under cover of false conventions party. Counsel for Bygmalion, 10 to 11 million euros have been removed from the campaign account. But according to a review on the record, that figure will rise to 18.5 million euros, does one source close to the investigation.

As she was heading to First on suspicion of overpricing in favor of Bygmalion, the case exploded late May, with the revelations of the Corporate Counsel, Patrick Maisonneuve, then the confession Jerome Lavrilleux, right arm of the former president UMP Jean-Francois Cope and deputy director of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. On the set of BFM TV, tears in his eyes, he recognized “a skid on the number of meetings” and conceded the establishment of an occult system .

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