Marseille (AFP) – Marseille city councilor and former MEP (EELV) Karim Zéribi was placed in custody in a case of embezzlement involving associations for the promotion of diversity, is it learned Thursday from sources.
The elected ecologist was taken into custody in Marseille on Wednesday night view of the investigators of the financial brigade of the judicial police, is it learned from sources close to the case .
The police questioned about the funding of several associations created by Mr. Zéribi vested in promoting diversity, according to another source close to the case.
criminal investigation was opened by Anne Tertian magistrate heads of embezzlement, concealment of abuse of trust and abuse of corporate assets. Justice elected suspected of having misappropriated grants to associations Acting for the competence and recruitment (APC recruitment) and Act for citizenship.
Counsel for Mr. Zéribi, Jean-Louis Keita could not be contacted by AFP.
Karim Zéribi, former professional football player and employee of the SNCF, in charge of diversity, created APC recruitment in 2005. This associative firm aims for better integration of young graduates of neighborhoods in the world of business.
In 2008, he was spokesman Jean-Noel Guerini, when mayoral candidate Marseille. He joined Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) in 2010.
The first non-European elected on a list on the left in the European elections of 2009, Mr. Zéribi became an MEP in favor of entry to the Government of Vincent Peillon in 2012. He was not re-elected in 2014.
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