Does not admit defeated. Stéphane Richard, former head of Orange and former cabinet director in Bercy at the time of arbitration between Bernard Tapie and Credit Lyonnais, will challenge the judicial decision that condemned him to six imprisonment of suspended prison.
Stéphane Richard also punished the “disconnection” of the magistrates after their judgment: “We have magistrates who wish to establish as lessons towards the senior officials”, without assuming the “overwhelming” responsibility of this type of position, he declares.
He states that Justice “did not take into account the judgment of the Court of Cassation issued in 2023”, an “unacceptable” decision and a “eroded” legal construction.
The former Bercy Cabinet Chief is cleaning himself: “Everyone knows very well that it was not I who did the arbitration, I have no personal interest in this case.”
A long -term procedure
At the end of this third trial and, as the general lawyer of the Court of Cassation suggested, the magistrates reheated the crime reproached to the former Cabinet director of Christine Lagarde to the Ministry of negligence of the economy instead of complicity in the embezzlement of public funds. Stéphane Richard was also sentenced to a fine of 15,000 euros fine.
He had been held in March-April together with the senior official Jean-François Rocchi, former manager of the Consortium of Realization (CDR), an entity responsible for administering the responsibilities of Credit Lyonnais. The latter was also sentenced to a six -month suspended sentence for negligence, as well as a fine of 8,000 euros.
They will also have to pay them two 10,000 euros in damages and 10,000 euros in civil parties lawyers.
His sentence in November 2021 had cost him his position at the head of the historical telephone operator: along with three other defendants, Stéphane Richard had been inflicted for a year in suspended prison and 50,000 euros fine for complicity in the embezzlement of public funds.
Source: BFM TV
