By FranceTV info Who’s next on the list? Nicolas Sarkozy was heard Friday under the open hearing by officers of the Anti-Corruption Office, reveals Le Monde Monday, September 7. The former president was asked about the financing of its 2012 campaign, as part of Bygmalion case.
Investigators suspect a system of false invoices created Communication between this agency and the UMP (now Republicans) to conceal exceeding the legal limit of campaign expenses. Purpose of fraud: the assumption by the UMP about 18.5 million in campaign spending to prevent them exceed the permitted ceiling and are rejected by the Constitutional Council, which was when even the case. Who are the 13 people indicted in this case? What were the main personalities heard? Lets see a case that is shaking the main party of the right.
Four leaders Bygmalion indicted
The first to be indicted, October 1, 2014, were the two co-founders and former leaders of the communications agency Bygmalion, Bastien Millot and Guy Alves, forgery and complicity in forgery. The former boss of the event subsidiary of the Company, Event and Co., Franck Attal, himself has been indicted for forgery and use of forgeries. On October 21, 2014, it was the Sébastien Borivent turn, deputy general manager of Bygmalion, to be indicted for forgery and complicity in forgery.
All are suspected of involvement in a system of false invoices in the framework of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. Events & amp; Co., event subsidiary of the communication society Bygmalion chaired by Bastien Millot, a relative of Jean-Francois Cope, has organized 42 meetings of the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. Now part of the addition, it seems, was paid by the UMP. Before the judge, Guy Alves “confirmed that the UMP took charge of irregularly Nicolas Sarkozy campaign expenses” .
Three executives of the UMP indicted
After the leaders of the Bygmalion society, investigators interviewed those of the UMP. Three former party cadres were indicted for forgery and use of forgery and breach of trust, Saturday, October 4, 2014.
This is Eric Cesari, former Deputy Director General of the UMP , nicknamed “Sarko the eye,” Fabienne Liadze, financial former director of the party and Pierre Chassat, former communications director. All three were placed under judicial supervision. They are forbidden to meet or contact Jean-Francois Cope or Nicolas Sarkozy.
Four officials of the countryside of Sarkozy indicted
Six months later, the investigation is still up a notch when three former officials presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 were indicted, Friday, April 3, 2015, after a police custody. UMP deputy Philippe Briand, who was the treasurer of the campaign, the lawyer Philip Blanchetier, Legal Adviser, and the prefect Guillaume Lambert, former director of the presidential campaign were prosecuted for forgery, fraud, concealment of abuse of trust and complicity of illegal financing of election campaign.
Two and a half months later, it was the turn of former deputy campaign manager, Jerome Lavrilleux, central character of the case, being indicted in turn, Monday, June 15, 2015, for forgery, concealment of abuse of confidence, fraud and illegal financing of complicity complicity election campaign. Lavrilleux Jerome, who left the UMP before its exclusion, is the only party leader to have acknowledged the existence of fraud, like three leaders Bygmalion indicted. MEP, he saw his parliamentary immunity lifted, May 19, allowing a possible placement in custody or under court supervision.
Two accountants from Campaign indicted
accountants Pierre Godet and Marc Leblanc, themselves, were indicted Thursday 2 and Friday, July 3, 2015, for their role in the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. They are charged with forgery, concealment of abuse of confidence, fraud and illegal financing of complicity in election campaign.
Both had raised the alarm about the cost of the campaign the UMP candidate, but had approved the accounts. For example, in a note dated March 7, 2012, Pierre Godet warned that the expenditure “budgeted” was approximately 23.1 million euros, more than the legal limit.
Sarkozy and Cope heard free hearing
Finally, investigators interviewed Nicolas Sarkozy under the free hearing . According to Le Monde , the hearing of the former head of state was held on Friday, before the appointment of Republicans this weekend in La Baule (Loire-Atlantique).
On July 28, former president of the UMP, Jean-Francois Cope, had been heard, also free hearing. This case had cost him his post as party leader.
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