Six former political figures, including Claude Gueant, have been placed in custody Wednesday in connection with the investigation of the surveys of the Elysee during the time Sarkozy.
Six former officials or advisors of the Presidency of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy in which the former Minister Claude Gueant also Xavier Musca and Emmanuelle Mignon , were placed in custody Wednesday in the investigation of the surveys of the Elysee, learned AFP source familiar with the matter.
Xavier Musca, former IEP Paris and ENA, has been appointed secretary general of the presidency in February 2011 and May 2012. He succeeded Claude Guéant after that he was appointed Interior Minister. As for Emmanuelle Mignon, senior official from the ranks of Essec, Sciences Po and ENA, she was Director of Nicolas Sarkozy’s office between May 2007 and July 2008. In addition to these three officials, Jean-Baptiste wheat (education adviser Nicolas Sarkozy), the commercial Jean-Michel Goudard and Julien Vaulpré (former adviser at the Elysee) were also questioned by the Brigade repression of Economic Crimes (OERD), ensures AFP.
procedural Battle
The survey , conducted by an investigating judge of the financial center, is about regularity of contracts concluded between the Elysée Sarkozy era and nine pollsters, the company Publifact Patrick Buisson, the influential adviser to the former president. The latter is not one of those in custody, said the source close to the dossier.
A judicial inquiry was opened for favoritism and embezzlement in this case called “surveys of the Elysee”, as a result of a complaint with civil party lodged by Anticor. The association of fight against corruption finds that many of the surveys commissioned by Publifact between 2007 and 2009 had no public interest in the presidential office. Meanwhile, a report from the Court of Auditors published in 2009 pinned expenditure Presidency Council: Patrick Buisson society “charged, for 2008 alone, to 10,000 euros monthly fee at the Elysee the price of its advice. Added to this sum 130 other bills and fees included, reached the sum of 1.5 million euros “, while postponing a section of” Liberation “. Of these bills, fifteen by Opinion polls published by LCI and “Le Figaro”, for an amount close to 400,000 euros. That without that “none of the possibilities offered by the procurement code to respect the rules of the tendering [...] has been applied,” then added to the Court of Auditors .
The association, which had filed a complaint in February 2010 before obtaining the end of 2012, the price of a long procedural battle, the judge Serge Tournaire can investigate, as estimated Some polls conducted after tenders were not within either of the presidential office. Since the investigations were extended to all consulting contracts or surveys commissioned during Sarkozy five years.
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