The Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) dismissed Monday in favor of Eric Woerth, targeted since 2019 by a judicial investigation for having granted in 2009 a disputed tax boost to Bernard Tapie, announced the lawyer for the former Budget Minister, Me Jean-Yves Le Borgne.
The CJR immersed itself in the issues of this technical affair and a kind of general agreement was reached to conclude that there was no reason to reproach anything whatsoever to the Minister of the Budget at the time who had arbitrated the regime applicable to the compensation of Tapie with regard to the sale of Adidas, affirmed Me Le Borgne, who represented the now deputy Renaissance, absent.
After reading the deliberation, the lawyer spoke to AFP about a particularly complex technical case of tax law and the legitimacy or otherwise of a tax system.
An offense not sufficiently characterized
From time to time there is an inclination to see evil everywhere and fortunately, it happens that we realize that it is wrong that the suspicion has been mentioned, congratulated Me Le Borgne.
In May, the public prosecutor of the CJR had requested a dismissal for Mr. Woerth, indicted since June 2021, considering that the intentional element of the offense of misappropriation was not sufficiently characterized.
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The deputy was suspected of having granted an undue tax advantage to Mr. Tapie, who died in October 2021 of cancer, after the controversial arbitration of his conflict with Credit Lyonnais, returned in 2008 and since canceled by civil justice. The businessman was awarded 403 million euros to settle his dispute with the bank over the sale of Adidas.