Bastien Millot, cofounder Bygmalion, again indicted – The World

The case Bygmalion experiencing a new twist. The former head of the communication society, Bastien Millot, was again indicted, Tuesday, September 15, in the investigation of an alleged system of false invoices during the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012, said a source court.

Already indicted in October 2014 for “false complicity” and “forgery” , Bastien Millot has this time been indicted for “complicity of illegal financing of election campaign” and “scam complicity” by investigating judges.

Investigations, conducted by three judges Parisian – Serge Tournaire, Roger Le Loire and Renaud Van Ruymbeke – cover more than 18 million fake invoices sent by the affiliate Bygmalion event, Event & amp society; Cie, the UMP (now Republicans) for services which actually corresponds to the organization of meetings for the 2012 presidential campaign The aim was to prevent them from exceeding the authorized ceiling of 22.5 million euros and are rejected by the Constitutional Council; This was still the case

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Thirteen indicted persons

In all, thirteen people are being examination. Among them, Mr. Millot addition, three former executives Bygmalion Guy Alves, Franck Attal and Sebastien Borivent. They acknowledge that they have had knowledge of the fraud; that Bastien Millot has always contested

If at first, the magistrates had indicted executives of the communications company and its subsidiary Bygmalion Event & amp. Cie, since they move to “political level” . Thus are now sued the former director general of the UMP Eric Cesari, or Guillaume Lambert and Jerome Lavrilleux respectively former director and deputy director of the campaign of Mr. Sarkozy.

Franck Attal, owner of Event and Co., told judges that Mr. Lavrilleux had requested at the end of March and beginning of April 2012 to announce that he had to use a fraudulent system breakdown of expenditure campaign UMP; that Jerome Lavrilleux contests, placing the recourse to fraud after the presidential election.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Mr. Attal have assured Sébastien Borivent then warned that, in turn, would have warned two bosses Bygmalion, Bastien Millot and Guy Alves.
According to this source, Sébastien Borivent told the magistrates that Bastien Millot, now a lawyer, gave his “green light” in the operation.

A decision “contrary to historical reality”

M ^th Rault, counsel for Bastien Millot, “This indictment is unwarranted and does not correspond to the historical reality of the events”

“The only thing that connects my client in this case is that he was the president of Bygmalion, the parent. (…) But nothing related to the campaign and the work of Event and Co. during this campaign. He never directed Event and has never been a shareholder. “

Apart from the campaign finance Mr. Sarkozy, Bastien Millot is also under investigation in another case involving suspicions of favoritism on contracts paid by France Télévisions to Bygmalion.