The former socialist minister, Bruno Le Roux, will be tried on November 12 and 13 by the Paris Criminal Court for the embezzlement of public funds in relation to the use of his daughters as collaborators when he was a deputy, we learned on Tuesday, August 5, a judicial source. A first hearing on the organization of the trial is scheduled for September 3.
The Office of the National Public Prosecutor of Financials (PNF) opened an investigation in 2017 to examine the suspicions of embezzlement of its compensation for compensation for the costs of the mandate (IRFM) and the use of their two daughters as parliamentary collaborators between 2009 and 2017 when he was deputy director of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Quickly after the opening of this investigation, Bruno Le Roux resigned from his position as Minister of the Interior, on March 21, 2017, less than a month from the presidential elections.
“We have never done, for more than eight years, statements” in this matter, he reacted to Bruno Le Roux, requested by AFP, explaining that he reserved “only for researchers” his explanations.
“We will continue, in a very serene and determined way, to reserve for justice all the elements that will demonstrate the total absence of crimes,” he added.
A total amount of 55,000 euros
The facts had been revealed by Daily In TMC. According to the program, their two daughters accumulated respectively 14 and 10 CDD during this period, when they were high school students and then students, for a total amount of 55,000 euros.
Some of these contracts have taken place at the same time as business internships or academic time, in the summer of 2013 for one of the girls, 20 days in May 2015 for the other.
Several parliamentarians have been convicted in recent years for the non-compliant use of their IRFM, including former deputies Jean-Christophe Cambadelis (PS), Alain Marsaud (LR), Anne-Christine Lang (PS) or former senator Philippe Nachbar (LR).
Source: BFM TV
