The Minister responsible for SMEs was convicted by the Paris Correctional Court, Wednesday, December 8, for having declared an incomplete or misleading manner his heritage situation and his interests when entering the government in July 2020.
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Alain Griset was not present at the deliberate hearing on Wednesday, December 8, before the 10 – SUP> E Chamber of the Criminal Court of Paris. It was his lawyer, M e Patrick Maisonneuve, who was responsible for announcing the bad news: the Minister responsible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), 68, has been convicted of ‘Having declared “incomplete or misleading” its heritage situation and interests to the High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP), in August 2020, after its appointment to the government.
Premier in office to appearing, on October 12, before a correctional court, Mr Grégéet was sentenced to six months of suspended prison and three years of suspension ineligibility. The judges have been in the requisitions of the vice-prosecutor, Julien Goldszlage, who had claimed, at the October hearing, ten to twelve months of suspended prison, a fine of 30,000 euros and a pain of ineligibility three years, which would lead to “automatically the prohibition of public functions”.
Resigning of the government, nearly two hours after the announcement of his conviction, Alain Griset will appeal the judgment, as confirmed by his lawyer at the end of the hearing.
m. Griset has been found guilty of having “concealed” in an “intentional” way to the HATVP the holding of a share savings plan (PEA) of 171,000 euros and “direct interests” (for 41 000 euros) in Several companies, like the French games or Natixis. On its PEA, 130,000 euros placed belonged to the National Confederation of Crafts of Northern Trades and Services (CNAMS), an interprofessional organization that Mr. Griset has been running since 1991.
Aggravant “Elements”
The Tribunal recalled that Mr. Gréset broke the law of October 2013 on the obligation of transparency that is necessary to ministers and elected officials. He considered that the Delegate Minister “sought to repay the amounts of CNAMS who were on his PEA rather than declare these funds on the date of his appointment” in Bercy, July 6, 2020.
On 4 August 2020, the delegated minister did not mention the existence of this PEA to HATVP. Only in October 2020, after a letter and at the end of the two-month legal deadline to make amendments, which he corrected his statements. In November 2020, the HATVP sent a report to the prosecution, considering that this omission was to “prevent the revelation of facts that may receive the criminal qualification of trusted abuse”.
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