PARIS (Reuters) – The public prosecutor requested on Monday the dismissal of the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, before the Court of Justice of the Republic, for illegal taking of interests within the framework of his functions, we learned on Tuesday in a press release from the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation and the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Justice of the Republic.
“On May 9, 2022, the public prosecutor’s office of the CJR took requisitions for the dismissal of Mr. Dupond-Moretti before the Court of Justice of the Republic, for acts of illegal taking of interest committed in Paris, on July 31 and September 18
2020, while he was a member of the government”, can we read.
The public prosecutor, it is specified, considers that there are “sufficient charges against the latter”.
The Keeper of the Seals, in office since July 2020, had been indicted in this case since July 2021.
Eric Dupond-Moretti is accused of having taken advantage of his functions to settle scores with magistrates against whom disputes opposed him.
The facts referred to are: “the referral to the General Inspectorate of Justice by the Minister on July 31, 2020, for the purposes of an administrative investigation against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office following an investigation carried out by this prosecutor’s office and which had given rise to a complaint from Mr. Dupond-Moretti”, specifies the press release.
And secondly, “the referral to the General Inspectorate of Justice by the Minister on September 18, 2020, for the purposes of an administrative investigation against an investigating judge previously in office in Monaco”.
(Sophie Louet and Nicolas Delame)
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