An investigation was opened this Monday, September 26 for embezzlement of public funds concerning the presidential campaign of Valérie Pécresse, according to information from Europe 1. It is a report from Julien Bayou dated April 19 which is at the origin of the opening of the investigation.
A preliminary investigation was opened on Monday September 26 for embezzlement of public funds concerning the presidential campaign of Valérie Pécresse, according to information from Europe 1. It is a report from Julien Bayou dated April 19 which is at the origin of the opening of the investigation. The investigations were entrusted to the BRDE, or the financial brigade, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
14.3 million euros devoted to the ballot
The report of the resigning national secretary of EELV, sent on April 19 to the public prosecutor’s office and of which Europe 1 was aware, also targeted the offenses of illegal financing of electoral campaigns, illegal financing of political parties, misuse of corporate assets and/or illegal seizures. of interests.
“We are not aware of this procedure,” Valérie Pécresse’s entourage told AFP, who assured that “all the rules (had) been scrupulously respected”. “The Greens still use the same method of slanderous denunciation,” the same source added. “We are calm and trust justice”.
LR candidate Valérie Pécresse spent 14.3 million euros for a single round of voting, but without reaching the 5% mark which would have allowed her to obtain reimbursement of her campaign expenses. After her defeat, she had also launched an appeal for donations to fill a hole of five million euros.