Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Neyret case: former commissioner sentenced to two and a half years in prison – The World

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After nine days of hearings in May, former police officer has been convicted of corruption and influence peddling. The judges considered that the transmission of many confidential information covered by professional secrecy, two unsavory characters who returned him gifts and gifts, had sealed a pact of corruption. The judges rejected the argument of the former policeman, who claimed to maintain a professional relationship with two potential informants. According to the judges, he not only received no information in exchange, but did not measure the consequences of their violations of secrecy, failing to learn about the actual activities of the two licensed crooks.

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Placed “at the heart of the case” , according to the expected read the hearing, Gilles Benichou, describes main corrupter, was sentenced to five years in prison, 100,000 euro fine and arrest warrant. Stéphane Alzraa his cousin involved in fraud in the carbon tax, also fled, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and 250 000 euros fine and arrest warrant.

Described woman bruised, “main victim of the scam to the friendship of Gilles Benichou” , Nicole Neyret was not so naive she left seem, the court said. The wife of the commissioner was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for concealment of corruption, mainly for accepting a Cartier luxury watch and taken steps to Geneva to open an offshore bank account.

drug trafficking component of the file has completely collapsed. The Commissioner and the Commander Christophe Gavat Gilles Guillotin at the time to the antenna of the judicial police in Grenoble, were acquitted. No evidence of sealed diversion is reported, say the judges, in a thinly veiled dig at against the investigation carried out between spring 2011 and summer 2015. Only Jean-Paul Marty was sentenced to a minimum term of three month suspended prison sentence and newsletter subscription 2 of his criminal record. The former group leader of the narcotics police of Lyon recognized the diversion of three packs of hashish. The court acknowledged him extenuating circumstances argued by lawyer Pierre Degoul. Without going to the acquittal for “unpredictable constraint” , the Court found that the officer had been left alone with the insistent demands of his superior, then he had alerted his superiors.

While mentioning “relationships for less heterodox” with the police, the court acquitted the lawyer David Metaxas Lyon to three documents received from the Commissioner, he did not know the character confidential, said the court

Five convictions, four acquittals. it is mainly the case Neyret personal derived from a policeman who had “lost all sense of limits” by the judges. Recognizing his outstanding career, magistrates rather estimated that “its glorious past” required increased accountability

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