The Minister of Justice was indicted in mid-July for this charge. It will be heard again on February 28 by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic.
Le Monde
The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, will again hear 28 February by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) in the investigation for “illegal interest” of which he does The object, told the world his lawyer, Christophe Ingrain, who “regrets that this information is made public”, confirming information from BFM-TV .
The Minister of Justice had already been heard on July 16, 2021, at the end of a six-hour hearing by the CJR Trade Commissioning, only jurisdiction empowered to continue and judge ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions. At the end of this interrogation, it had been indicted for “illegal taking of interest”. On February 28, it will be an interrogation at the bottom, as usually in this type of procedures.
Set accounts with magistrates
After the complaints of trade unions and the antiboring association denouncing situations of conflict of interest in two cases, the CJR opened in January a judicial information for “illegal taking of interest”. Mr. Dupond-Moretti, named seal keeps in July 2020, is suspected of having benefited from his function to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had mesh to leave when he was a lawyer, in two files.
The first concerns the administrative investigation he ordered in September 2020 against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) who had peeling his detailed telephone surveys (“fade”) when he was still a star of the pretends.
The case concerns the preliminary investigation in 2014 by the PNF to seek a possible taupe in its bosom likely to have informed Thierry Herzog, the lawyer of Nicolas Sarkozy, that the mobile phone acquired under the name of Loan Paul Bismuth by the former President of the Republic had been put on listening as part of the investigation into influence trading. The report on the functioning of the PNF concluded on September 15 that nothing illegal has been done by the PNF in this procedure, but malfunctions have been identified.
In the second file, he is criticized for having diligent administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge in Monaco, Edouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients and which he had criticized ” Cowboy methods “. The unions had therefore considered that its decision to open, once appointed to the Chancery, a survey against Mr. Levrault was the conflict of interest. Eric Dupond-Moretti hammered that he had only made “follow the recommendations” of his administration.