Following this announcement on Monday, the entourage of the candidate LR, which denies any conflict of interest, said AFP that Valérie Pécresse had asked his lawyer to file a complaint for slanderous denunciation.
Le Monde with AFP
The ecologists of Ile-de-France Mobilies (IDFD) announced the Public Prosecutor on Monday 21 February the President of Region Valérie Pécresse, who is also at the head of this authority of transport, that They suspect of illegal interest, for holding stock options at Alstom, IDFM equipment supplier. Solicited by the France-Press agency (AFP), the entourage of the candidate the Republicans (LR) in the presidential election, said that she had asked her lawyer to file a complaint for slanderous denunciation.
The elected representatives, including David Belliard, Deputy (EELV) of PS PS, Anne Hidalgo, and support from Yannick Jadot in the presidential race, “think” that M me Pécresse has committed since his election at the head of the region, at the end of 2015, “an illegal interest offense”, as they explained at a press point. Their action follows the publication of press articles, in which “it is indicated”, according to the Greens, that M me Pécresse “would hold with her husband actions Alstom. A situation which, if It was proven, would be incompatible with its function as president of IDFM “.
The entourage of the region president which is also a candidate denies any situation of conflict of interest, advancing that the Pécresse couple would have restended all his actions upon the election of the latter at the head of the region, in December 2015: “After the beginning of its mandate as Chairman of the Region, nor Madam Pécresse has never been owned by Alstom shares, or interested in the results of the Alstom or the course of its action . “
Actions at Alstom while his husband worked there
Egologists’ elected officials decided to use Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which imposes on “any authority constituted, any public or official officer” who is aware of a crime or an offense to report it to the Prosecutor of the Republic.
According to an article from the online media blast published in January, M me Pécresse has” invisibilized “of the actions of Alstom that she held in common with her husband so that They no longer appear in his declarations of interest. Her husband, Jérôme Pécresse, was Vice President of Alstom and Chairman of the Board of Directors of his 2011 Renewable Energy Branch in early 2016, just after the acquisition of the Group’s energy activities by General Electric, in November 2015.
M me Pécresse was elected at the head of the region a month later, in December 2015. With her husband, they quickly created a trust, an assembly also known under The term Anglo-Saxon of Trust, for a bank manages this share portfolio at Alstom in their place and have since resold all their actions.
Since the beginning of the Regional President’s first regional mandate, IDFM has commissioned nearly 2.4 billion euros of rolling stock in Alstom, recall elected elected officials.
“Or, M me Pécresse did not abstain to participate during this period on the examination of the files and the choice of the companies subject to the vote of the CA (…) which have resulted in the Choice of the company Alstom as the supplier of the organizing authority, (…) While and its husband were holders of financial assets of this company, “says ecologist elected officials.