The old senior official, held by the business, had to pass on Monday his first night to the health prison, for a sentence of 2017 which he did not make the payments required to settle the fine and the damage and the damage and the damage interests.
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Never has a former senior official of his rank experienced such a destiny. Former Prefect, Secretary General of the Elysee, Minister of the Interior converted without success in the private sector, Claude Gueant, soon 77 years, had to spend his first night in prison, Monday, December 13, to the “neighborhood of vulnerable people” of The health prison in Paris. He could stay nine months. “His state of health is worrying and I will do everything to get it out as soon as possible so that he serves his sentence at home,” said his lawyer, Philippe Platez El Ghozi, who is about to seize the judge of ‘Application of sentences.
The “cardinal” – as it was formerly nicknamed for his austerity, his ability to work and his influence – is identified by the cases and caught up with that of the “premiums” of cabinet that earned him to be sentenced In 2017 to two years in prison, including one with reprieve, and 75,000 euros fine for diversion of public funds. He had paid each month 5,000 euros of bonuses, an amount added to a salary of 8,000 euros and to compensation of 2,200 euros. It is thanks to these funds, taken in the investigation costs, which would have given, for example, between 2008 and 2013, more than 110,000 euros in large cuts to family members. The survey demonstrated that it returned the rest to three of its employees.
On 9 November, part of its conditional freedom and its stay were revoked by the Paris Court of Appeal, which reproaches him for not making the payments required to settle the fine and damages.
Its financial situation has already given rise on December 3rd to the exceptional reopening of the hearing debates on the Elysee’s surveys (studies granted without call for tenders to companies of Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti Between 2007 and 2012 when he actually served as Secretary General of the Elysee), before the Paris Correctional Court. During the hearing, Claude Guéant had vainly attempted to convince the judges of his difficulties in repaying his debt to the state, arguing of a calamic professional situation.
A “Victimization Speech”
In front of the court, he explained to live, asphyxiate financially by the judicial decisions that leave him only “1,622 euros of resources”, screened by a personal debt of about 190,000 euros. He explained that he has redeemed part of his life insurance of 130,000 euros to help his children, who are struggling to find a job. His lawyer recalled that he kept the usufruct on his Paris apartment in the 16 e district and his secondary house in Durtal (Maine-et-Loire), two property seized by justice in The survey framework on a likely Libyan funding from Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign in 2007.
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