The Minister of Energy Transition is targeted by an investigation by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life for family ties with this Company.
Le Monde
The Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, will not be able to deal with subjects linked to three companies, including the oil company Perenco whose father was a manager, according to A decree published Tuesday November 15 in the Official Journal , a week After A Disconlass Media Survey which had caused strong political reactions.
In order to prevent any conflict of interest, the decree indicates that the Minister “does not know acts of any kind relating to the group Defense International Council, the EP2C group and the Perenco group”. The disclose investigation had revealed that the minister’s children were associated with a company based on funds domiciled in tax havens and transmitted by Jean-Michel Runacher; Perenco had also invested in some of these funds.
The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) opened an investigation on November 8, the name of this company not being mentioned in the declaration of interests of the Minister. The law obliges him to declare his direct participations and those of his spouse, but not those of his children, which confirmed the HATVP. “It is not my heritage, but that of my children who, themselves, have no power of management of the company to date,” replied Ms. Pannier-Runacher at Disclose. “The HATVP guide leaves no ambiguity that I did not have to declare this structure,” she insisted with the France-Presse agency (AFP).
“Unfounded allegations”
According to the NGO Anticor cited by Disclose, the Minister should have declared the company preventively, in the “observations” category, upon his appointment [to the government, to the post of Secretary of State to the Minister of the economy] in 2018 “. The investigation media also quotes HATVP, for which “the lack of declarative obligation does not exempt the public official from ensuring to prevent and put an end to the situations of conflict of interest which would arise from other indirect interests held, such as that the activity of children or other members of the family “.
The interested party had denounced “false and slanderous allegations”. “Who benefits from the crime?” She launched on Wednesday on the sidelines of a trip to Pas-de-Calais. “As soon as you have allegations which are unfounded, false and slanderous, who want to lead me not to defend a text on the renewable energies which was very largely adopted by the Senate, I wonder” -It added, saying to itself “serene” and “determined”.
The text it carries on renewable energies must be presented to the National Assembly on December 5.