JUSTICE The criminal investigation was initially opened in June for forgery and use of forgery, breach of trust and attempt scam …
The Paris prosecutor has recently extended the investigation Bygmalion the case and the accounts of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 to the illegal funding of election offense, is it learned Tuesday judicial source, confirming a report of release . The judicial inquiry, led by financial judges, was originally opened in June for forgery and use of forgery, breach of trust and attempted fraud.
A system of false invoices
Seven people have been indicted in this case, four former executives Bygmalion, the main provider company meetings of Nicolas Sarkozy, and three former executives of the UMP, including former deputy director of the Jerome campaign Lavrilleux.
The survey provides a system of false invoices created to allow the budget to Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign does not explode the authorized ceiling of 22.5 million euros. According to the testimony of several protagonists, false invoices were issued to allocate sums to the UMP and not to the campaign budget.
Sarkozy denies any knowledge of the system
An evaluation on the record, no less than € 18.5 million were evaded the Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign account through this system of false invoices.
In the end, the Constitutional Council had still felt that the ceiling had been exceeded, some 23 million euros, depriving the former president of public reimbursement. The UMP had then appealed for donations activists to pay the bill via the famous “Sarkothon.”
Investigators are trying to determine how that particular extensive fraud was set up, which resulted in the order and when the system has been decided. As Jean-Francois Cope, who was then secretary general of the UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy strongly denies having had any knowledge of the system.
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