According to information from the day before, the National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has retained the offense of “favoritism” for a future trial against Olivier Dussopt which will relate to a public market concluded at the end of the 2000 with the SAUR group.
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He will “continue to convince [his] good faith”. The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt “disputes” the idea of an “arrangement” with a water treatment distribution group when he was mayor of Annonay, he said on Saturday February 4 France Inter. The Minister of Labor, on the front line on pension reform, “has all the confidence of the Prime Minister,” said Matignon in stride.
“There was no arrangement”: suspected of “favoritism”, Olivier Dussopt defends himself
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According to information from the day before, the National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has retained the offense of “favoritism” for a future trial against Olivier Dussopt which will relate to a public market concluded at the end of the 2000 with the Saur group.
“In May 2020, a press article believed to be able to question my relations with a water group in the city of Annonay of which I was the mayor”, and “the financial prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and Process for many checks, “said the Minister on France Inter, continuing:
“At the end of this investigation work, the prosecution had gathered the facts in five points, and I note that the explanations given with my lawyer convinced the prosecution of my good faith since out of four of these five points , the prosecution decided that it was necessary to classify by retaining that there was no prosecution for corruption, interest or enrichment. “
However, “the prosecution considers that, as part of a procedure for public market in 2009 (…), there could be an offense of favoritism,” said Olivier Dussopt. And to conclude:
“It is an affirmation, a thesis, which I contest, and I have only one wish (…), it is to continue to convince and explain how things went to convince of my good Faith. “
a” friend “gift
Olivier Dussopt had been pinned in May 2020 by Mediapart for having received as a gift, from the Saur, two lithographs from the painter Gérard Garouste when a contract was on the Not to be concluded between the company and the city of Annonay.
The case, reported by the information site, dates back to January 2017, ten months before entering the government of Olivier Dussopt as Secretary of State for the Public Service. The works, estimated at the time at “just over 2,000 euros”, had been offered to him through Franck Driveroux, one of the leaders of the Saur in Ardèche, reported Mediapart.
Olivier Dussopt had first invoked a “friend” gift from Franck Driveroux, before recognizing that it was “a gift from the company” offered during a Interview with this manager and another SAUR executive. The one who was at the time secretary of state explained that he had not declared these lithographs to the ethics of the National Assembly – as required for any gift of more than 150 euros – because he “ignored the value” of the ” two paintings. At the time of the publication of the case, he had made it known, “to avoid any controversy, [having] decided to restore this gift as soon as possible”.
According to Mediapart, the search carried out by the minister by the financial investigators of the Central Office to Combat Corruption and financial and fiscal offenses (OCLCIFF) updated “exchanges between Olivier Dussopt and (the Saur) seeming to leave little doubt about the existence of an arrangement around a public market dated 2009-2010 “.