The Court of Justice of the Republic condemned, Wednesday, the former Minister of François Hollande for having granted a public market in 2014 to a company managed by his brother.
Le Monde
After eight years of waiting, Kader Arif, former minister under François Hollande, was sentenced on Wednesday October 26 to one year in prison suspended by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) for having attributed in 2014 A public market to a company managed by his brother. Kader Arif, in charge of the veterans portfolio in Ayrault governments and then Valls, between 2012 and 2014, will also have to pay a fine of 20,000 euros.
He was accused of having concluded without competition, in March 2014, a media training contract (from training to public speaking) of 60,000 euros between the Ministry of Defense and All Company Access, managed by her brother Aissa Arif, whose name did not appear.
“cheat”
“If Mr. Arif was really guilty of the facts that he is accused of, the penalty is very light. There were most certainly strong hesitations on the central question of guilt,” commented the One of his lawyers, François Cantier, after the announcement of the decision.
Thursday, the accusation had requested two years in prison suspended, 15,000 euros fine, as well as a ban on exercising public functions for five years. She had castigated “a conception of the state which is not acceptable”, despite the “modest” amounts at stake.
The former Minister Delegate and Secretary of State had refuted him any desire to “cheat”, ensuring that he did not know the role of his brother in the company retained for the contract.