Renaud Chervet was monitoring privileged information and confidential documents as part of the award of public contracts. “Very serious” facts and a “massive corruption”, judged the Marseille Criminal Court, Friday December 2.
by Luc Leroux (Marseille, Correspondent)
Ticket bundles, trips to the end of the world, invitations to the restaurant, free works in exchange for public procurement: this caricatured corruption applies to Renaud Chervet, which was one of the main directors of the Departmental Council of Bouches-du- Rhône between 2008 and 2016, to be sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of 350,000 euros. The Marseille Criminal Court, Friday, December 2, awarded a deferred warrant against this former senior official, which repels its incarceration a few weeks.
Faced with this 50 -year -old man standing at the helm, the president of the court, Céline Ballerini, multiplied the motivations of this severity: “very serious facts”, “he let himself be corrupted massively”, “He set up – some saying that he would have continued – a clientelist policy completely distorting democratic game”, “unbearable acts in a society in which exercising a public service must imperatively refer to a form of exemplarity”.
At the end of October, during the debates, Renaud Chervet, former director of administration, management and accounting within the Departmental Council, could only recognize that a few companies were monitoring privileged information and Confidential documents. A small boss who wanted to enter his “little circle” had filmed, in hidden camera, meetings with the official. On January 19, 2016, overnight in a car, the two men concluded a corruption pact: a deposit of 10,000 euros passing by one hand to the other against the promise of a waterproofing market.
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“I felt a huge feeling of shame”, had recognized, attached, Renaud Chervet, after the broadcasting of images on the screens of the courtroom. This video had prompted the prosecutor to denounce “mafia, not civil servants and business leaders”, and to claim seven years in prison and 200,000 euros fine against this “senior territorial official who extends the rot of corruption within the community “.
In this corruption system that the accusation said “well oiled”, Jérôme Disdier, recruited by the Departmental Council to the post of contracting authority, in particular responsible for rewriting public procurement, had been a zealous accomplice . He had presented himself as a “contaminating fuse”. The court designates it as the “pivot of the system” and sentenced it to three years in prison with a deferred deposit warrant, a fine of 75,000 euros.
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