The former advisor was also sanctioned by 300,000 euros fine for tax evasion. Justice reproached him, as well as his wife, for concealed € 8.9 million on various accounts in tax havens, between 1996 and 2016.
Le Monde
Thierry Gaubert, former collaborator of Nicolas Sarkozy, was sentenced Tuesday 22 February on appeal to eighteen months of imprisonment and 300 000 euros fine for fiscal fraud and whitening, against three years in prison and 600,000 euros fine at first instance.
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the revocation of the ten-month stay pronounced in Nanterre for abuse of confidence and social goods in a case of diversion of funds from the 1% housing, as well as the confiscation of collection watches and sums on his bank account.
She reversed the prohibition of managing a business for ten years, pronounced by the Criminal Court.
On June 24, 2020, the former councilor of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Mayor of Neuilly in 1983, then at the Ministry of Budget (1993-1995), had been sentenced twice as heavy, alongside his ex Hélène de Yugoslavia who had been inflicting eighteen months with reprieve and 50,000 euros fine – she did not appeal.
Justice reproached them for concealed 8.9 million euros on various accounts in tax havens, between 1996 and 2016.
Event of an appeal in cassation
Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard and Thierry Sclatinus, 70-year-old Thierry Gaubert lawyers, did not wish to speak immediately but they said consider the possibility of a cassation appeal.
On June 15, 2020, Thierry Gaubert and five other defendants were sentenced in the financial component of the Karachi case for their role in a system of occult commissions on arming contracts with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
He then saw four years in prison, including two firm, and 120,000 euros fine, for concealment of corporate abuse. He appealed, but the dates of this new trial have not yet been fixed.
Thierry Gaubert also remains indicted for “Malfactor Association” in the Sustain Funding Libyan survey for Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign. In particular, it is suspected of having received funds from the Libyan regime in Gaddafi who could have abound the budget of this campaign.