The case relates to the award of a public market in the waste treatment sector. The former LR senator is heard within the framework of an open judicial information for favoritism, corruption, illegal takeover of interests and illegal understanding.
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Mayor Les Républicains (LR) of Compiègne and former senator, Philippe Marini, was placed in police custody, Tuesday, May 31, with five other people as part of a survey for corruption and favoritism in connection with the waste management, we learned from a source close to the file.
m. Marini was placed in police custody at 9 am in this case on the award of a public market in the waste treatment sector, it was added from the same source, confirming Parisian information .
The former president of the Senate finance committee is heard by the gendarmes of the Paris research section, as part of an open judicial information for “favoritism”, “corruption”, “illegal taken from Interests “and” illegal agreement “.
file of the construction of a waste sorting center
Among the other five people in police custody is the boss of the Paprec company, which, according to Le Parisien, had won in 2017 a market on the construction of a waste sorting center for an amount evaluated to 36 million euros.
As part of the same survey, searches had been carried out in May 2021 in the premises of the agglomeration of the Compiègne region and at the home of Philippe Marini. Contacted Tuesday by the France-Presse agency (AFP), the town hall of Compiègne did not wish to make a comment.