The stepmother of Emmanuel Macron’s political advisor is suspected of having held a fictitious job in the National Assembly for fourteen months, between 2015 and 2016. The Deloitte cabinet is also indicted for “trafficking Active influence “.
Le Monde with AFP
The mother-in-law of the deputy of the Republic En Marche Thierry Solère and the cabinet Deloitte were recently indicted as part of an investigation, in Nanterre, targeting the political advisor of Emmanuel Macron, said Tuesday May 3 A source close to the file at France-Presse, Confirming information from Mediapart .
indicted on March 30 for “concealment of embezzlement of public funds”, Mr. Solère’s mother-in-law is suspected of having held a fictitious job in the National Assembly for fourteen months, between 2015 and 2016. The Deloitte firm, who employed Thierry Solère between 2011 and 2012 by paying him 20,000 euros in fees, was indicted on the 1 April for “active influence traffic”. The wife of Mr. Solère, who was her parliamentary collaborator between 2012 and 2017, was placed under the status of assisted witness.
Contacted by AFP, Thierry Solère denounced the pursuit of a “judicial cavalry”. He assured that his mother-in-law gave him “weekly activity reports” by e-mail. Regarding Deloitte, the former vice-president of the Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Council swept the suspicion of “active influence traffic”, assuring that his contract “excluded all work in the Hauts-de-de Seine “and that he was only a” simple municipal councilor opposition to Boulogne-Billancourt “.
thirteen different charges
These new proceedings are part of a judicial investigation opened in Nanterre in 2019, in which the elected representative, aged 50, is indicted for thirteen charges, including “tax fraud” , “fictitious employment” and “illicit financing of electoral expenses”.
The last indictments against him were pronounced on January 31, in particular for “passive influence traffic”. He is suspected of having “used his influence with a view to obtaining markets” to real estate companies between 2007 and 2017 and a consulting company, between 2011 and 2012, according to the Nanterre prosecution (Hauts-de -Seine), questioned in January. He was also indicted for breaches of declarative obligations to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP).
Investigators suspect him, among other things, of having omitted to declare, in 2014, “a substantial part of his interests, in particular under his activities as a consultant in the period preceding his election”. Thierry Solère transmitted Tuesday to AFP a letter from the HATPV explaining that the list of “all of the customers” of a consultant was not a compulsory element to provide – which would clear him. >