This survey, also open for breach of trust and concealment of these offenses, “aims to verify the merits of the elements published in the press”, specifies the PNF.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
After the publication of articles according to which the ex-wife of Eric Ciotti has accumulated several jobs in the Assembly, in Nice and in the department, a preliminary survey was opened for embezzlement, said Tuesday The National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), confirming information from bfmtv .
This survey, also open for breach of trust and concealment of these offenses, “aims to verify the merits of the elements published in the press,” said this source.
Last week, Le Canard Enchainé said that the former wife of the Alpes-Maritimes deputy had accumulated various jobs with the deputy or political allies: press secretary of Christian Estrosi, she had in 2007 become parliamentary parliamentary by Eric Ciotti when he had been elected to the Assembly, in addition to a job at the Departmental Council of the Alpes Maritimes where she “extends her skills” when her husband takes the presidency, in 2008.
The article also revealed that she had become deputy director of the mayor of Nice before joining the piloting team of the urban community, exercising these responsibilities until 2011. In the assembly, his contract ended In 2016 but it also, between 2014 and 2016, exercised responsibilities in the commune of La Colle-sur-Loup, and had a job in the diocese of Nice between 2012 and 2014, still assured the satirical weekly.
“In both cases, the accumulation of activity has never exceeded 44 hours per week,” replied Éric Ciotti in a statement, saying “basically attacked” on the eve of the election for the presidency LR in early December. The deputy explained that he used Caroline Magne as a parliamentary collaborator “in time very part-time” and “in strict compliance with laws and regulations”. His job “in constituency” reached “5:25 a week”, he assured . As for the one at the town hall of La-Colle-sur-Loup, “the weekly working time has never exceeded 9 hours per week”, he said.