Agnès Saal. The former president of the INA have already abused the expense … – Ouest-France

The former president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), Agnès Saal, forced to resign in late April after being pinned for its taxis, is also suspected of having used taxis for reasons “professionals not exclusively” at the Pompidou Centre, said Creteil prosecutor Thursday.

The documents submitted to the court by the Ministry of Culture “reveal presumptions of non-professional use of taxis by the former president of the INA during the period “ where she was Executive Director of the National Centre for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou (NACC), between 2007 and 2014, said prosecutors in a statement.

“This component will be a transmission to the Paris prosecutor, territorial jurisdiction” , he added, without elaborating .

Survey “embezzlement aggravated”

The Department of Culture also brought to the floor of the “new rooms” on “undue taxi fares” incurred by Ms Saal when she was at the head of INA, between May 2014 and April 2015.

These “complement” a preliminary inquiry on May 20 “embezzlement aggravated” , he said.

The opening of this investigation, entrusted to the Brigade of repression of Economic Crimes (OERD), follows “a note from the auditor of the INA in As part of its obligation to criminal acts of revelation “, had said the floor Tuesday.

This note “includes a number of information, that certain Mrs. Saal taxi bills correspond to the costs of a third party, in its occurrence son, and of expenses incurred outside of the working days “.

More than 40 000 taxis in ten months

Named to head the INA in 2014, Agnès Saal was forced to resign in late April after being pinned for spending over 40 000 taxis in ten months, of which 6 700 euros by his son who had its reservation code at the G7 company.

An administrative investigation Agnès Saal – unrelated to the preliminary inquiry – is also under way, the result should be known in the coming days.

The applicant, aged 57, said through a written document of his lawyers, Jean-Pierre Mignard and Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, it had paid 15,940 euros for travel expenses, including 6,700 euros “expenses attributable to his son” and 5,840 euros “private nature of travel” .

The two lawyers also argue that all the taxi fares from their client “are less than the amount of the means (him) were offered” , ie a second driver, whose “the annual cost (…) would have been 62 000″ , excluding costs related to car use.