He was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for remunerating his ex-wife for a fictitious employment of parliamentary assistant between 2002 and 2013.
Le Monde with AFP
Philippe Martin, former Minister of François Hollande, left the presidency of the departmental council of the Gers, after having been sentenced, Tuesday, two years in prison suspended for diversion of public funds, announced his firm, Thursday, January 6th . Also declared ineligible for three years, Philippe Martin has resigned from Tuesday night, but it had not been made public.
In a written declaration broadcast Thursday, the one who had been the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in the Government of Jean-Marc Ayrault, between July 2013 and April 2014, shares his “sadness “To” have to leave this presidency in special circumstances that leave a bitter taste, and on which [he] does not want to come back “. The former deputy of the Gers (Socialist Party), between 2002 and 2017, also expresses its “pride” of “projects” engaged in this department of Southwest.
Philippe Martin was sentenced to Paris for remunerating his ex-wife, Joëlle Martin, for a fictitious job of a parliamentary assistant between 2002 and 2013.
Investigation started as a result of a denunciation anonymous
The former couple could not provide “no material trace” of the work of M me Martin, who had “no material put at his disposal” nor “No contact with others Assistants, who were not aware “of his job, said the Sébastien Financial Attorney of the Touanne when they appeared before the 32 e Chamber of the Judicial Court of Paris. They kept a “total discretion on this hiring,” he added. Mr. Martin had failed to declare it to the High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP).
If there has been “personal enrichment on public funds”, the two accused “testified with a certain capacity for amendment,” said the other representative of the Aurélian Public Prosecutor’s Office, justifying the sentence of suspended prison, in “perfect coherence” with other similar folders.
In solidarity with his ex-wife – sentenced to six months of probationary suspension for complicity and concealment of diversion of public funds – Philippe Martin will have to reimburse the 238,000 euros she had received at the National Assembly. They will also have to pay respectively 70,000 and 30,000 euros fine.
Philippe Martin, 68, will also have to reimburse 194,000 euros in the National Assembly for remunerating, with the money of the Palais-Bourbon, a woman who worked for the Socialist Party in Auch between 2005 and 2012.
The investigation had started in 2017, following the receipt of two anonymous letters of denunciation by the protoquet of Auch and the PNF. The PNF then requested information to the National Assembly, at the USSRAF and HATVP and entrusted the investigations to the Central Office for the fight against corruption and financial and fiscal offenses (OCLCIFF).