Polls Sarkozy in the Elysée: what is it? – TF1

Six former employees of Nicolas Sarkozy , which Claude Gueant , Xavier Musca and Emmanuelle Mignon, were questioned throughout the day Wednesday in custody Polls in the investigation of the Elysee , which were éplinglés by the Court of Auditors during the last five years. All were released in the evening, according to two sources close to the investigation. “There is no indictment” at this stage of the investigation, told AFP the lawyer of Claude Guéant, Mr Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi, speaking for his client.

addition Claude Gueant and Xavier Musca, who had succeeded to the post of Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, and Emmanuelle Mignon, old Nicolas Sarkozy’s chief of staff, three former Elysian advisers were interviewed by Brigade repression of Economic Crimes (OERD). This is Jean-Baptiste de Froment, Julien and Jean-Michel Vaulpré Goudard. The survey, conducted by the examining magistrate Serge Tournaire, focuses on possible irregularities in the contracts concluded by the Elysée with nine research institutes or consulting companies during the five year term of Nicolas Sarkozy. Among them, companies of Patrick Buisson (Publifact) or Pierre Giacometti (Giacometti Peron), two close advisers of former President.

The Court of Auditors inquiry from 2009
The controversy over these surveys began in 2009, after the publication of a report by the Court of Auditors severely pinned an agreement signed on 1 June 2007 between the Elysée and the law firm of Patrick Buisson “a cost of around 1.5 million euros.” “None of the possibilities offered by the procurement code” was applied, considered the Court of Auditors, deploring “the character not only of the Convention very brief (one page), but also exorbitant under the rules of execution of public spending. ” Signed by Emmanuelle Mignon, this agreement gave the company Publifact “complete discretion” over expenses to be incurred, the Court was concerned.
“White Card and checkbook available”, lambasted the association against the Anticor corruption, which had filed a complaint in February 2010. The association had obtained only in late 2012, at the price a long procedural battle, the Serge Tournaire judge to investigate alleged acts of favoritism and misappropriation of public funds. Subsequently, investigations were extended to all consulting contracts or surveys commissioned during Sarkozy five years, amounted to over EUR 9 million in subsequent complaint Anticor. In a 2010 audit report, the ECA noted for his part “a serious effort of rationalization and savings” toward the Elysee, noting that the agreement with Publifact had “resulted in more Orders for new studies “after September 2009. The complaint
Anticor denounced facts of favoritism in awarding contracts, as well as embezzlement of public funds, some polls are” foreign “to her eyes to the office of President of the Republic. The association was pointing a study on the connection between Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni or on potential opponents of President as Marine Le Pen, and, at least at the time, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Searches had been conducted in April 2013 at Patrick Buisson. The latter came from the extreme right – he led the newspaper Minute – known and very influential with Nicolas Sarkozy during his five and lost 2012 presidential election, has re talking about him with the famous secret recordings that realized at the Elysee. In July 2014, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed his sentence to pay damages to the former president, who cut ties with his former adviser.