Three more they are now ten to be indicted in the case known Bygmalion. And the three men worried by the vast case of false invoices are three senior members of the 2012 campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The former campaign manager and current prefect of Lozère, Guillaume Lambert, MP UMP Philippe Briand, former treasurer of the campaign and the party’s lawyer, Philippe Blanchetier, too involved in his financial monitoring, were indicted Friday for forgery, fraud, concealment of abuse of trust and complicity illegal financing of election campaign.
They join four former executives of the company Bygmalion and three former executives of the UMP, already under this status last autumn. Investigators are convinced that they participated in the establishment of a system of false invoices for the UMP supports about 18.5 million of expenses of the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Purpose of fraud: prevent these meetings costs are recorded in campaign budget and explode the authorized ceiling of 22.5 million euros … which ultimately was still exceeded.
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subsidiary of Bygmalion “Event and Co” had issued false invoices to the UMP for dozens of events, some of which have not been organized, while the costs of meetings were systematically minus in campaign accounts presented including the Constitutional Council, to which the qualification scam.
“What clean”
The judges want to know who was aware of the fraud, which has given the order and when the campaign. Guillaume Lambert, Philippe Briand and Philip Blanchetier participants included meetings “financial monitoring” campaign, according to testimony given in an old part of the UMP indictment file, Fabienne Liadzé.
The boss of Event, Franck Attal, confirmed to the judges that he was asked to lower tariffs. But “the machine was racing” and “I was asked to new services,” which made it impossible to control costs, he confided, according to a source familiar with the matter. He claims to have warned Guillaume Lambert and Jerome Lavrilleux the problem of extra costs, but “they would say it had to be done.”
Guillaume Lambert has already stated that he had never been question her make-up of the accounts. Signatory to the campaign account, Philippe Briand had assured to have made “as clean.”
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As for Nicolas Sarkozy, who has not been heard in this folder, he challenged the very existence of a “double billing system”, ensuring that he had “learned the name of Bygmalion ” that “long after the presidential campaign. “
The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve already announced by press that he would propose to the President of the Republic to dismiss Guillaume Lambert from his position as prefect.
TV with AFP
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