Paris – The prefect Alain Gardère indicted for accepting bribes and banned from public employment – L’Express

This officer of 59 years, who was a member of Claude Gueant’s office at the Ministry of the Interior, was indicted including abuse of authority, illegal taking of interest by person holding public office, corruption by passive public official, the misuse of corporate assets and abuse of public funds, said a judicial source.

Placed on probation, he was prohibited from exercising any public employment, and will not engage in any activity in the areas of security and airports. He will also pay a bail of 150,000 euros.

Alain Gardère was taken into custody Tuesday in the premises of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the “ font font “.

He had immediately been suspended from his duties as head of the National Council of private security activities (CNaPS), the body responsible for issuing approvals including private security companies under the Ministry inside. A search was conducted at his home and in the premises of CNaPS.

Another policeman, his chief of staff at CNaPS, was also indicted for endangering including freedom and equal access to procurement by public officials accepting bribes and complicity misappropriation of public funds.

Also Challenged Tuesday, the boss of a security firm and airports services and two women have however been released after their detention.

– “ Services ” –

According to a source close to the deal, Alain Gardère is notably suspected “ to have rendered services “, in 2015, when he worked at CNaPS. “ In exchange, he would not have paid restaurants, some vacation … “, the source said.

It is notably suspected of “ facilitated the obtaining security markets “, she added.

At the root of the matter, a survey of businesses suspected of clandestine work. “ The plays are set up and elements appear against Gardère “, the source said, which led to the opening of a separate judicial September 23, including misuse of corporate assets, Bribery, corruption and illegal taking of interest.

Named Prefect by the right, he had become firm in March 2011 as Deputy Director of Interior Minister Claude Gueant, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. He was sent as a delegate to Marseille Prefect for Security a few months later, including a mission to stop the regulations are bloody accounts.

He left the post shortly after the arrival of the left to power in 2012, supporting the safety of the Paris airports Roissy and Le Bourget CNaPS until his appointment in January 2015.

Alain Gardère is not the first prefect in which justice is concerned.

In 2003, the prefect of Corsica Bernard Bonnet had been sentenced to three years in prison with a firm in the case of straw huts. Jean-Charles Marchiani, prefect of the Var from 1995 to 1997, was sentenced in 2008 to include a sentence of three years in prison for having received kickbacks in procurement.

Claude Gueant, also prefect, was sentenced in November to two years suspended sentence by the Paris Criminal Court in the trial of cash bonuses while he was chief of staff to Minister Interior Nicolas Sarkozy.

It is also indicted for tax evasion including laundering in organized gang in the case of two Flemish paintings he allegedly sold to explain a transfer of 500,000 euros on his account.