Convened Wednesday 1 st April morning by judges Renaud Van Ruymbeke and Serge Tournaire, who teach since October 2014 case known as penalties, Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under the status of assisted witness, said the prosecutor. This status is intermediate between that of mere witness and indicted: it assumes that it is evidence making likely that the person concerned has been involved in the commission of offenses
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Mr. Sarkozy, already sued for “influence peddling”, “corruption” and “breach of confidentiality” to another folder – Azibert the case – is accused support by the UMP financial penalties that were inflicted in December 2012. At that date, noting overtaking the unfortunate Mr Sarkozy presidential campaign, the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP ) ordered the applicant to return to the state lump sum of 153,000 euros which it had enjoyed, and pay the Treasury 363 615 euros, the amount involved in the campaign spending limit.
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The rejection of the account Sarkozy candidate had also been confirmed in July 2013 by the Constitutional Council. The two bodies were not then that applying article L52-15 of the Electoral Code, which states that “in all cases where the limit on election expenses limit has been established by a final decision, the commission then sets a amount equal to the amount of the excess that the applicant is required to pay the Treasury “
However, the leaders of the UMP. – at the time, Eric Cesari, close to M. Sarkozy was still the general manager of the party headed by Jean-Francois Cope – had yet signed in 2013 the refund check, on the basis of a simple legal opinion written by the lawyer Philippe Blanchetier as he returned to the candidate to pay from his pocket. This decision, even though the UMP was financially battered, had been recorded July 4, 2013, at the offices of Mr Sarkozy, and in his presence.
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Note that M th Blanchetier is certainly the UMP board, but it also represents the interests of M . Sarkozy, since he defended before the Board of campaign accounts, while the treasurer of the financial association of the Club of Friends of Nicolas Sarkozy.
But the direction of change UMP 15 June 2014 has completely changed the situation. Mr. Cope Bygmalion carried away by the storm, the trio of former first-Juppe Raffarin-Fillon Ministers takes things in hand. At the initiative of former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, Sarkozy’s rival, two legal opinions are thus requested two lawyers, M are François Sureau and Kiril Bougartchev. They will radically against the recommendations of M th Blanchetier: according to the two lawyers, the UMP was not just the right to replace Nicolas Sarkozy to set the penalty. The auditors report these facts to the public prosecutor of Paris, in the wake ordering a preliminary investigation.
The first investigations seem to agree with the auditors, as the investigating judges before Mr Sarkozy have indicted for “breach of trust” the member of the Marne Catherine Vautrin, as a former treasurer of the UMP, and Jean-Francois Cope, in his former capacity party chairman
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Worried about developments in the judicial inquiry, Mr Sarkozy announced in December 2014 its decision to pay the sum of the UMP which she had paid for it. But that does not change from a judicial point of view, compensation for damage not erasing the original offense
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