2023-06-02 15:05:24
The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, will be tried in Paris from November 27 to 30 for favoritism in a case relating to a public contract concluded as mayor in the late 2000s with SAUR, learned Agence France-Presse (AFP) from a judicial source, Friday June 2, confirming information from BFMTV.
For these facts dating from the years 2009-2010, when he was deputy and mayor of Annonay, Mr. Dussopt was summoned for favoritism by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), last week. The water treatment group is being prosecuted for concealment of favoritism, and Olivier Brousse, former leader of SAUR, for complicity, said the judicial source.
In a statement following this announcement, the Minister believes that“no corruption” not him “reproached”but the PNF “considers that there is only one grievance” on five points raised, “in this case a formal offense of favoritism in a public contract in 2009, fourteen years ago”.
“I have convinced the prosecution of the merits of my position on the first four points, I will convince the court of the merits of my position and of my good faith on this last point remaining to be decided”continued Mr. Dussopt.
Gifts of works
The preliminary investigation for illegal taking of interests had been opened against Olivier Dussopt initially about two lithographs by the painter Gérard Garouste which had been offered to him by a company in 2017, when he was deputy and mayor of Annonay. The investigation was to verify possible facts of « corruption » and of “illegal taking of interest”.
According to Mediapart, who had announced at the beginning of February this next trial for the ministerthe search carried out at the Minister’s premises by financial investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Financial and Tax Offenses had revealed a possible arrangement around this suspicious public contract.
At the time, in the midst of the mobilization against the pension reform, Matignon had quickly indicated that the minister was keeping “all the confidence of the Prime Minister”. A few days later, Emmanuel Macron had brought his “full support” to M. Dussopt.
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