Elected ecologists criticize the regional president for not having deported the negotiations of Ile-de-France Mobilités with the industrial giant while she was a shareholder.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
A preliminary investigation for illegal interest in interest was opened at the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) after a report of elected officials suspecting Valérie Pécresse for having held stock-options at Alstom while she presided over the authority of Transport Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), we learned on Friday December 2 from a judicial source.
Environmental elected officials IDFM announced that they were entering justice on February 21, when the president of the Ile-de-France region was a candidate for the presidential election. These elected officials, including David Belliard, assistant (EELV) to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (PS), had declared “to think” that M Me Pécresse had committed since his election at the end of 2015 ” An offense of illegal interest “.
They were based in particular on a article, published in January, of the online media blast , according to which the president of the region had “invisibilized” of the actions of Alstom that She held with her husband so that they no longer appear in her declarations of interest. Jérôme Pécresse worked at Alstom until the group’s energy activities are repaired by General Electric in November 2015.
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A month later, M Me Pécresse was elected at the head of the region and quickly created, according to Blast, a trust, a montage also known under the Anglo-Saxon term “trust” , for a bank to manage this share portfolio in their place. Since then, IDFM has ordered nearly 2.4 billion euros in rolling stock in Alstom, according to elected environmentalists. “Now, M me did not refrain from participating during this period in the examination of files and in the choice of companies submitted to the voting of the CA (…), which led to the choice of The Alstom company as a supplier (…), while she and her husband were holders of financial assets of this company, “they said.
“After the start of his mandate, neither he neither he has never been owners of ALSTOM shares, nor interested in the results of the company or The evolution of the course of action, “then recalled the entourage of M me pécresse. “Mr. Pécresse immediately sold all the Alstom actions” which he owned after the election of his wife. A trust was set up with a bank to receive the balance of “incessant” shares and sell them once it has become transferable at a price lower than the action, had specified the same source.
“Valérie Pécresse scrupulously respected the rules for the prevention of conflicts of interest, in all transparency with the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life”, recalled his entourage on Friday, solicited by AFP. “It is yet another stinking ball of the Greens according to their usual method of slander to dirty,” added the same source, specifying that “all the supporting documents on this slanderous denunciation” had been transmitted to justice.