The mother-in-law of the deputy of La République en Marche Thierry Solère and the Deloitte cabinet were recently indicted as part of an investigation, in Nanterre, targeting the political adviser to Emmanuel Macron, announced Tuesday May 3 a source familiar with the matter at Agence France-Presse, confirming information from Mediapart.
Indicted on March 30 for “concealment of embezzlement of public funds”, the mother-in-law of Mr. Solère is suspected of having held a fictitious job in the National Assembly for fourteen months, between 2015 and 2016. The Deloitte firm , who employed Thierry Solère between 2011 and 2012 by paying him 20,000 euros in fees, was indicted on 1is April for “active influence peddling”. The wife of Mr. Solère, who was his parliamentary collaborator between 2012 and 2017, was placed under the status of assisted witness.
Contacted by AFP, Thierry Solère denounced the pursuit of a “judicial cavalry”. He assured that his mother-in-law gave him back “weekly activity reports” by email. Regarding the Deloitte firm, the former vice-president of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council dismissed the suspicion of “active influence peddling”, assuring that his contract “excludes any work in the Hauts-de-Seine” and that he was then only one “simple opposition municipal councilor in Boulogne-Billancourt”.
Thirteen different counts
These new lawsuits are part of a judicial investigation opened in Nanterre in 2019, in which the 50-year-old elected official is indicted on thirteen counts, including “tax evasion”, “employment fictitious” and “illicit financing of election expenses”.
The last indictments against him were pronounced on January 31, in particular for “passive influence peddling”. He is suspected of having “used his influence to obtain contracts” to real estate companies between 2007 and 2017 and to a consulting company, between 2011 and 2012, according to the parquet floor of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), questioned in January. He was also indicted for breaches of reporting obligations to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP).
Investigators suspect him, among other things, of having failed to declare, in 2014, “a substantial part of his interests, in particular in respect of his activities as a consultant in the period preceding his election”. Thierry Solère sent AFP a letter from the HATPV on Tuesday explaining that the list of “all customers” of a consultant was not a mandatory item to provide – which he said would clear him.