Olivier Dussopt will be tried from November 27 to 30 for favoritism in a case relating to a public contract concluded as mayor in the late 2000s with Saur. The water treatment group is being prosecuted for concealment of favoritism, and Olivier Brousse, former manager, for complicity in favoritism.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt will be tried in Paris from November 27 to 30 for favoritism in a case relating to a public contract concluded as mayor in the late 2000s with Saur, AFP learned from a judicial source on Friday. confirming information from BFM TV. For these facts dating from the years 2009-2010, when he was deputy and mayor of Annonay, Olivier Dussopt was summoned to appear for favoritism by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, last week.
The water treatment group is being prosecuted for concealment of favoritism, and Olivier Brousse, former manager of Saur, for complicity in favoritism, said the judicial source.
“No corruption charged”, says Dussopt
In a statement following this announcement, the Minister considers that “no corruption” is “accused of him”, but that the PNF “considers that there is only one grievance” on five points raised, “in this case a formal offense of favoritism in a 2009 public contract, fourteen years ago”. “I have convinced the prosecution of the merits of my position on the first four points, I will convince the court of the merits of my position and my good faith on this last point remaining to be decided”, continued Olivier Dussopt.
The preliminary investigation for illegal taking of interest had been opened against Olivier Dussopt initially about two lithographs by the painter Gérard Garouste which had been offered to him by a company in 2017, when he was deputy and mayor of Annonay. The investigation was to verify possible facts of “corruption” and “illegal taking of interest”.
A case that emerged in the heart of the mobilization against the pension reform
According to Mediapart, which announced this next trial for the Minister at the beginning of February, the search carried out at the Minister’s premises by financial investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Financial and Tax Offenses had revealed a possible arrangement around this suspect public market.
At the time, in the heart of the mobilization against the pension reform, Matignon had quickly indicated that the minister kept “all the confidence of the Prime Minister”. A few days later, Emmanuel Macron had given his “full support” to Olivier Dussopt.
Source: Europe1
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