A centrist sénatoriate association in the judicial turmoil. The former secretary of a Senate centrist association, François Thual, was indicted this week for embezzlement in the investigation of money which have benefited from the UMP, learned this Saturday the AFP judicial source.
Financial judges are investigating this issue since November 2013, revealed Mediapart. Abuse of trust to open and concealment of this crime, the investigation was extended in April 2014 alleged facts of embezzlement of public funds. It is on this count has been indicted François Thual, long time secretary general of the Senate Republican Union (URS), which received funding from the UMP.
“I was going to retire between 5000 and 6000 euros in cash”
In November, François Thual had testified in Le Monde “Until this summer, I went every month or so, remove between 5,000 and 6,000 euros in cash to one of the accounts of the URS, and I was recovering the treasurer of the UMP group in the Senate, Jean -Claude Carle. ”
“I acted on demand. It showed me the amount to be debited to the phone. I was on my way” to the bank, “I recovered species, slid the tickets in my pocket and I returned by taxi in the Senate, “he detailing. “They need cash because senators were fresh, we explained to me on the phone”, stated François Thual yet, which could not be reached by AFP. “This is totally false. François Thual never given me anything. I have also filed a complaint for defamation,” responded Senator Jean-Claude Carle to AFP.
The Republicans do not follow
The survey of judges and René Cros Emmanuelle Legrand also relates to funds received by the UMP senator of the Yonne Henri de Raincourt, including when he was in government under Nicolas Sarkozy. The elected official had admitted having received 4,000 euros per month, paid from an account on behalf of his political group, as was also revealed Mediapart.
He spoke of “aid and support for parliamentary activities,” explaining that the amounts received when he was Minister corresponded to an earlier activity. Friday, Mediapart revealed a complaint from the Association Anticor likely to enter the field of investigative magistrates, according to the website, the UMP senators were “Christmas checks of about 8,000 euros per person, from crates their political group from 2003 to 2014 “. Which would represent “five million euros since the creation of it in December 2002″. Saturday asked by AFP, the group Republicans (former UMP) in the Senate did not follow. In May 2014, he denied “formally misappropriation of public funds.”
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