The former communications adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, Franck Louvrier, was taken into custody Thursday in the anti-corruption office of the judicial police, as part of the investigation Bygmalion.
In response to a summons, Franck Louvrier, current regional councilor of the Pays-de-la-Loire, was presented with a summons at 09:00 Thursday morning. He was placed in custody. In late January, his home had been searched as part of the investigation into an alleged vast system of false invoices during the presidential campaign of 2012. “Nothing that could be of interest to the investigation were seized,” assured at the time the entourage of Franck Louvrier, a former adviser to the Elysee and during the presidential campaign of 2012.
Nicolas Sarkozy campaign expenditures
Bygmalion the case, it is a question of false invoices that helped conceal campaign spending Nicolas Sarkozy during the presidential election. Justice wants to know what knowledge had political fraud. The investigators of the Anti-Corruption Office (Oclciff) are convinced that a fraudulent system was put in place for the UMP supports about 18.5 million in campaign expenses, from Event and Co., a subsidiary of Bygmalion.
Ten people have been indicted
The aim of this fraudulent operation was to prevent these expenses are included in the campaign budget and explode the authorized ceiling, which was ultimately still exceeded. To achieve Event and Co. issued false invoices to the UMP for conventions, most of which have not been organized
Ten people have been indicted in this case. Four former Bygmalion executives, three of which have acknowledged their participation or knowledge of the fraud, three former executives of the UMP and three leaders of the campaign, including its director Guillaume Lambert. So far, no protagonist has questioned the former head of state.
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