Before the Superior Council of the Magistracy, the representative of Elisabeth Borne asked not to pronounce disciplinary sanctions against the two prosecuted magistrates, including Eliane Houlette, the former PNF chef, implicated in the case Fadettes.
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The case had started in June 2020 with a vehement attack against the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) and a criminal complaint against his “Barbouzes methods” of the lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti. He reacted to the discovery of a preliminary investigation which led the magistrates to peel the fadets of lawyers, of which himself, in search of a mole in the Sarkozy-Bismuth-Herzog-Azibert case.
Born in 2014 on the rubble of the scandal around the former Minister for the Budget Jérôme Cahuzac, this prosecution with national jurisdiction to deal with corruption and great tax and financial fraud was threatened. Disciplinary surveys have been ordered on several of its members by Mr. Dupond-Moretti, who became Minister of Justice.
Tuesday, September 27 ended before the Superior Council of the Magistracy two days of disciplinary hearing devoted to Eliane Houlette, the former patron of the PNF. Paul Huber, director of judicial services, the most powerful administration in Place Vendôme, has praised this prosecution: “There is no question of questioning the efficiency and probity of this institution here. proven himself and is now registered in the international landscape. “Admittedly, he did not speak on behalf of the Minister of Justice who appointed him to this post, but in that of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, charged From this procedure to avoid any new risk of conflict of interest to the ex-avocado. Jean-Pierre Mignard, lawyer for M me heed, wondered if we were “at a disciplinary hearing or a decoration delivery”.
hatreds between magistrates
The General Inspectorate of Justice concluded in September 2020 that nothing illegal had been noted in the way in which this survey called n ° 306 had been carried out. Retired for three years, M me heed, which led the PNF from 2014 to 2019, was nevertheless prosecuted before the disciplinary authority for not having pointed out in good and due to this sensitive investigation At the Paris general prosecutor’s office, his supervisory authority.
Suspicions of PNF’s opacity on this point have passed out at the hearing. The members of the public prosecutor’s office had been informed of the 306 survey on several occasions and by several channels, observed the two rapporteurs of the CSM. Mr. Huber, representing the accusation in this disciplinary procedure, concluded that this grievance did not hold. The PNF’s “Fadettes scandal” has definitely “made pschitt”.
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