This key figure in the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy during the presidential campaign of 2012 was heard on Thursday in connection with the Bygmalion case.
Franck Louvrier came out of police custody tonight and no charges would be brought against him at this stage of the investigation: “The hearing has informed the investigators about the roles and responsibilities during the presidential campaign of 2012. No charges were brought against me after ten hours of hearings, “said he said after his custody.
Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, the former communications adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, Franck Louvrier, was taken into custody at the Anti-Corruption Office to the judicial police in connection with the case known of Bygmalion. Responding to a call, the oldest associate of the former President of the Republic, current regional councilor of the Pays-de-la-Loire and President of Publicis Events had to answer charges against him.
A key figure in the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy during the presidential campaign of 2012, the 47 year old man is suspected of being the heart of a dual accounting system of false invoices issued by Event and Cie, a subsidiary of Bygmalion society. The false invoices were meant to be attributed to the UMP spending the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in order to avoid exceeding the ceiling of 22.5 million. The trick to doing this:. Issuing false invoices for 55 agreements, most ever organized for a total of 12.7 million euros
The existence of fraud has been recognized by three former leaders of Bygmalion and Jerome Lavrilleux, former deputy director of the countryside and close to Jean-Francois Cope to the UMP. But the investigating judges want to know when and by whom the
Lighten the alleged fraud scheme
Jerome Lavrilleux when to a hearing June 17, 2014, had told investigators: “There was, as a provider, Event & amp society Co., chosen early in the season, ie a few days before the declaration of the candidature of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, by agreement between Franck Louvrier and myself. Franck Louvrier was in charge of communication at the Elysee “
According to testimony in the record, Franck Louvrier intervened early in the campaign to ask Event & amp; Cie. To lower its rates. According to several witnesses, he also had a role in the arrival of another company, Public Agency, which is added to Event & amp; Cie in organizing rallies
The. investigators aim now is to Lighten the alleged fraud scheme and determine the knowledge of the fraud executives of the UMP and in particular that of Nicolas Sarkozy. For now, no protagonist has questioned the former head of state to have had knowledge of the fraud.
The investigating judges have indicted ten people in this folder: four former executives Bygmalion three former executives of the UMP and three officials of the campaign
(with AFP)
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