The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life has refused that the former Minister of the Government of Jean Castex can become executive vice-president in charge of the space pole that the CMA CGM plans to create.
Le Monde with AFP
The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) has failed a retraining project of the former minister delegate for transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari in the CMA CGM shipowner, pointing out “substantial ethical risks” , according to an opinion published Tuesday 24 May .
The former Minister of the Government of Jean Castex, who had already obtained a green light from the HATVP to sit on the board of directors of the Hopium start-up, specializing in the construction of hydrogen vehicles, wanted this Time, become executive vice-president in charge of the space pole that the CMA CGM plans to create. Mr. Djebbari would have been, as such, a member of the executive committee of the maritime transport giant. Contacted, the CMA CGM did not wish to comment on the information.
“legitimate doubt”
Member of the government from September 2019 to May 2022, Mr. Djebbari’s project was deemed “incompatible” with its former functions due to “substantial ethical risks”, according to the High Authority. Given the files that the ex -minister had to manage -intermodality, civil aviation, satellite applications, ports or maritime transport -HATVP estimates that this position in CMA CGM would cause a risk of questioning of the “independent and impartial functioning of the administration”.
The HATVP also notes that Mr. Djebbari has met eight times the executives of the maritime transport company. What to create “a legitimate doubt as to the conditions under which the Minister has exercised his government functions, with regard to ethical principles and the obligation to prevent conflicts of interest which are imposed on him,” said the High Authority.
This has also given a green light, but under very strict conditions, to the creation by the ex-minister of a consulting company.
“perfectly serene”
The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life warns the ex-deputy of the Republic En Marche de la Haute-Vienne against the criminal risk “of illegal interest” in cases where his future company advice would have as a client a company in the transport sector.
For a period of three years, he must also refrain from any approach, including representation of interests, with members of the government or administrations responsible for transport.
m. Djebbari said, on May 17, “perfectly serene” and had assured that he had “no state of mind” to go to the private sector, after a passage to government, which he had long announced not to want Continue.