The ex-minister delegate to SMEs was tried for “breach of trust” by the Lille Criminal Court, Wednesday May 25.
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Nearly six months ago, on December 8, 2021, Alain Griset, then Minister Delegate in charge of SMEs, was found guilty by the Paris Criminal Court of having declared in “incomplete or false” his heritage situation ” And his interests when he entered the government in July 2020. He was sentenced to six months’ suspended imprisonment and three years of ineligibility, also suspended, and had resigned in stride. This Wednesday, May 25, he returned to court, from Lille this time, to answer for “breach of trust”, in another part of the same case. It presents itself today as “retired”.
It was following a tracfin report on movements in its bank accounts, qualified as “atypical”, that the investigation leading to this trial was triggered. Former taxi driver and president of multiple professional organizations, Alain Griset has always claimed to have received a mandate from the northern section of the National Confederation of Handicrafts, Trades and Services (CNAMS), which he has been chaired since 1991, in order to Have a sum of 130,000 euros. He placed it on his own PEA and not on one of the organization’s accounts.
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The investigation, however, showed that the only trace provided with a mandate from the board of directors of the CNAMS to make this placement was a false, a document written a posteriori when, appointed minister and alerted from the report of Tracfin and From the investigation that was going to result from it, he warned the secretary general of the Elysée Alexis Kohler. The members of the board of directors interviewed, they think they were “undoubtedly” made aware of this request for investment but no longer remember.
Meanwhile, the money placed on the PEA of Mr. Griset has made small: a global added value of more than 40,000 euros, according to Tracfin, without it being possible for the designated expert Determine the share of his personal investments and the part of the 130,000 euros which had been entrusted to him. Alain Griset had reversed these 130,000 euros, inflated by an added value he had estimated at 19,200 euros, on one of the CNAMS accounts. Alain Griset swears that she never wanted to betray the confidence of his administrators, “volunteers who provide these functions because they believe in it”. So, yes, he said, he could “have done better from an administrative point of view” and “committed blunders” but he “never intended to cheat”.
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