The representative of the executive Paul Huber considered that this breach could not give rise to a sanction, because committed before the retirement of Eliane Houlette in June 2019.
No disciplinary sanction was claimed Tuesday, September 27 against the former national financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette, even if the public prosecutor considers that she failed to “his duty of impartialitydue to past conflicts of interest.
Before the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the representative of the executive Paul Huber considered that this breach could not give rise to a sanction, in particular because it had been committed before the retirement of Eliane Houlette in mid -2019. The two other grievances with which he was charged, one of which was linked to the affair of the “fadettes“, are not characterized, also estimated Paul Huber.
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“We walk on the head“, reacted one of his lawyers Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, “shockedby the conclusions of the representative of the executive. Former head of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), Ms. Houlette has been appearing since Monday before the disciplinary body of magistrates in a procedure which is worth to its initiator, the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti, to be indicted for “illegal taking of interests“.
Three grievances
Three grievances are addressed to the former magistrate, whose Paul Huber praised the “efforts» having allowed the PNF to be «permanently inscribed in the Tança landscape“. The first relates to his management of the investigation which had led to the examination of the telephone records of tenors of the bar to identify a mole in the affair of corruption of “playsinvolving Nicolas Sarkozy. Eliane Houlette was accused of not having informed her supervisory authority.
“This grievance is not made“, decided Paul Huber, adding that it was the same with regard to the accusations of management “brutal» that weigh on Eliane Houlette. On the other hand, he argued, the former head of the PNF failed in his “duty of impartiality, but also of prudence and loyaltydue to conflicts of interest.
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At the end of her term, Eliane Houlette had discussions with a lawyer about an investigation conducted by the PNF. She had, moreover, not informed her teams that her daughter worked in a firm in which one of the partners appeared on the sidelines of a file supervised by this prosecution. To justify the absence of sanctions, Paul Huber also highlighted the fact that these alleged breaches were known before the retirement of Eliane Houlette and had not then given rise to any disciplinary procedure.
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