The hearing may be long, very long. Summoned to his indictment including illegal financing of election campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Tuesday morning with his lawyer in the office of Judge Serge Tournaire, one of the magistrates in charge of Bygmalion folder. Former President of the Republic to be heard on the alleged overflow of his campaign accounts in 2012.
After his hearing, Nicolas Sarkozy risk an indictment. It can also stand under the status of assisted witness, intermediate between a simple witness and placed under investigation.
The survey Bygmalion, the name of the company which organized the rallies candidate Sarkozy and led by close to Jean-Francois Cope, was originally a system of false invoices of € 18 million revealed by “Liberation”. After a year and a half of investigation, searches, hearings and expertise, judges are now convinced that these false invoices paid by the UMP used to hide an explosion of legal spending limit for the presidency (22 5 million).
during their investigations, the judges also found that 10 million euros of electoral bills had been paid by the party in 2012 instead of the candidate. Exceedances of campaign costs thus amount to EUR 28 million
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Bygmalion: these mysterious 13 million has spent the UMP
A warning from the accountant
Nicolas Sarkozy was he aware of these excesses? In his testimony in September in the same folder, the former head of state denied all responsibility. Worse, he called the farce thesis. He even won during his hearing:
Who can dare to say that my campaign skidded “
This defense now likely to face hundreds of bills? that “the Obs” consulted that all tell the story in their own way the campaign could be the most expensive ever undertaken …
however, no protagonist of the case n has implicated directly Nicolas Sarkozy. But several executives Bygmalion, accountant and Jerome Lavrilleux the UMP, have recognized the existence of this fraud. Lavrilleux Jerome, in a long interview to “Obs” it pointed to the responsibility of Nicolas Sarkozy:
Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign accounts in 2012, overflowed on all sides and not just the budget for meetings It should.. longer call this case ‘Bygmalion’ but that of Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign accounts. Nothing was controlled. “
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The survey also shows that the former president has requested and obtained more meetings, in mid March 2012. His campaign manager, William Lambert, allegedly told a note of the alarming accountant on above the maximum risk.
in September 2015, Nicolas Sarkozy has yet assured the investigators do not remember this warning. He returned responsibility for false invoices on Bygmalion and the UMP, then headed by Jean-François Copé, itself placed under assisted witness status.
forgotten 13 million
But since then, the investigation has expanded to expenses that have nothing to do with Bygmalion company founded by relatives of Jean-Francois Cope.
judges query in particular a “presidential” line in the 2012 budget of the party, indicating 13.5 million euros of expenses incurred, while three million only were disclosed in the campaign account.
Trains, shirt, meetings rooms, leaflets, polls investigators traced the new forgotten bills, which appear in the accounts of the UMP but not in the campaign account
investigation. is open for forgery, breach of trust, fraud and illegal financing of election campaign.
Violet Lazard and Agathe Ranc
Confrontation around 13 million missing
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