Nicolas Sarkozy seems about to give up on one of the pans contained in its slate. The Paris prosecutor’s office on July 8 required a non-place in the General folder on penalties imposed on the defeated candidate for campaign expenses exceeded for president in 2012, but paid by the UMP, revealed Monday Le Figaro .
The public prosecutor of Paris has considered that the conditions of a trial are not met. It evokes “inadequately supported expenses concerning the intentional element of the breach of trust,” according to a source close to the investigation quoted by the daily.
The end date case 2013. Following a judgment of the Constitutional Council invalidate the campaign accounts of the candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, the UMP fee accounts already battered 363,615 euros, corresponding to the overshoot, plus a lump sum of 153,000 euros, and pays to the Treasury in lieu of the former president.
“Case completed”?
But a few months later, as the triumvirate-Juppe Raffarin-Fillon has replaced Jean-Francois Cope to the head of the UMP (now the Republicans), the statutory accounts of the party share their doubts about the legitimacy of the repayment of the penalty. On October 6, is opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office a criminal investigation for breach of trust, complicity and concealment.
The judges Renaud Van Ruymbeke and René Grouman seize the investigation. Before them, the former president supported his rival François Fillon. He suspects it of wanting to prevent his return to politics. He alleged a procedure “instrumentalized in order to personally achieve.”
The former head of state was placed in this folder as the intermediate status light attended, as well as the former director of the party’s resources, Fabienne Liadze, the former part of the UMP Jérôme Lavrilleux and party lawyer, M th Philippe Blanchetier. However, the former president of the UMP Jean-Francois Cope has been indicted for embezzlement, as the former treasurer of the party, Catherine Vautrin.
The demand of the prosecutor’s office not close this case that runs for over a year: it is now to the two investigating judges to decide. But a dismissal order seems likely since one of them, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, decided in April not to indict Nicolas Sarkozy after hearing it. His lawyer, M th Thierry Herzog, had then predicted a “complete case” .
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