The former Minister Yamina Benguigui cited correctional – The Obs

Suspected of having made declarations of assets and interests incomplete between 2012 and 2014, when she was Minister for La Francophonie, Yamina Benguigui will be summoned to appear in corrections in Paris, will on Monday 8 December judicial source.

Alerted by the High Authority for the transparency of political life, the Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation early April. Two days earlier, Yamina Benguigui was ruled out of the government of Manuel Valls who succeeded Jean-Marc Ayrault.

The announcement of the trial, the date is not fixed, comes just days after the starting Elysée Faouzi Lamdaoui , a close adviser to François Hollande, believed to have received in 2007 and 2008 compensation in excess of what he said by a company of which he is believed to have been de facto manager.

According to the law on transparency of political life, adopted in October 2013 in the wake of the Cahuzac affair, shortcomings in asset declarations may be punished by a sentence of up to three years in prison, a fine of 45,000 euros and ten years of ineligibility.

Benguigui refutes any “fraud”

At issue, Yamina Benguigui three declarations of assets and two declarations of interest from July 2012 he joined the government, and March 2014, the source said.

The director, who has denied any “fraud of some kind” or “personal enrichment” is suspected of failing to report that it has, since 2005 20% of a limited company under Belgian law, G2. This is a shareholder holding 99% of his production company Bandits productions.

She had sold his shares in January 2014 for 430,000 euros, a substantial modification of its heritage that it was required to report within a month, is it said.

The long list of socialist affected by business

Furthermore Yamina Benguigui and Faouzi Lamdaoui, several ministers and advisers Francois Hollande was forced to resign since 2012 because of their legal trouble and taxes.

• Chief Policy Advisor of the State Aquilino Morelle was pushed out after new revelations of the information site of fees received from a Danish laboratory while he was stationed in the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS ).

• Nine days after his appointment, Thomas Thévenoud September 4 left his post as Secretary of State for Foreign Trade for evading tax

& gt.; The declaration of assets Yamina Benguigui March 31, 2013