<- Hard dé e: 0.015011072158813 sec -> The three former executives arrested in the UMP Bygmalion investigating a system of false invoices during the 2012 presidential campaign began Friday morning their second day of childcare custody.
Eric Cesari, nicknamed “Sarko’s eye” to the UMP, financial former head of the party, Fabienne Liadze, and former communications director, Pierre Chassat, were arrested at their homes Thursday morning and taken to the headquarters of the anti-corruption of the judicial police in Nanterre office. Their custody was extended Friday, according to a judicial source. It could take up to 48 hours, a period after which the three could be presented to the judges for a possible indictment.
Three other protagonists of the case were Wednesday in this case three former leaders of Bygmalion, the main provider company meetings sarkozystes. After executives Bygmalion, investigators questioned those of UMP to look at how the system was set up and who gave the order.
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Wednesday, before the judge, a cofounder of the company, Guy Alves, confirmed his participation in a massive fraud to disguise the campaign account of the former head of state. “A device (…) under which the UMP took over irregularly campaign costs of Nicolas Sarkozy,” said his lawyer, Patrick Maisonneuve.
This maneuver would allow the budget campaign does not explode the ceiling fixed by law for candidates to be on an equal footing, or € 22.5 million for those reaching the second round. For this Event and Co., a subsidiary of Bygmalion event had many expenses charged to the UMP and not the Sarkozy campaign via fictitious conventions of the party. An evaluation on file, no less than 18.5 million euros have been evaded campaign account, said a source familiar with the matter.
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 of 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.
Cope and Sarkozy could they ignore fraud?
In late June, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation for “forgery and use of false”, “breach of trust” and “attempted fraud”. For the three judges of the financial center of Paris, it will also be informed of who was in the UMP and the team of such fraud campaign and if the leading roles, such as Jean Cope-François and Nicolas Sarkozy, could ignore it.
“I learned the name of Bygmalion long after the presidential campaign,” had assured the former head of state during his televised speech for his return to politics, September 21. Wednesday night, his rival François Fillon has clearly distanced itself from this. “I was not involved in the organization of the 2012 campaign but I have often heard of Bygmalion, and I have often seen that Bygmalion was a company who regularly worked with the UMP” a-t he said on BFM TV.
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