The investigation targeting the former head of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) for "
violation of the secrecy of the investigation and trading in influence
" was dismissed by the Nanterre prosecutor's office, prosecutor Catherine told AFP. Denis.
"
The offense was uncharacterized,
" said Catherine Denis, confirming information from Marianne magazine.
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Wiretaps made between May and June 2019 as part of a judicial investigation in Paris on possible fictitious jobs at the town hall of Marseille revealed that a Marseille lawyer was boasting of being "
friends
" with the anti-corruption prosecutor.
In these eavesdropping unveiled by Mediapart last June, Me Jean-Jacques Campana affirmed to an executive of the town hall of Marseille that he had met Éliane Houlette and then obtained information on the investigations in progress.
They led to the opening of a judicial investigation targeting Ms. Houlette, who left office in the summer of 2019, by the Paris prosecutor's office on September 5, 2019. The procedure was disoriented two weeks later in Nanterre.
"
Ms. Houlette is satisfied that after a thorough investigation her honor is safe
", reacted to AFP her lawyer, Me Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, rejoicing that "
is validated the principle of relations that may have magistrates and lawyers
”.
In a letter sent to Mediapart in June, Éliane Houlette had confirmed having received the lawyer, “
who is also a friendly relationship
”, with his wife in his office at the Paris court on May 17, 2019. “
Imagine that I could wanting to thwart in any way these procedures is a complete absurdity,
”Ms. Houlette also said.
The revelation of the content of these eavesdropping took place in the midst of a controversy over the PNF's management of several sensitive political affairs: Fillon, Kohler,
Sarkozy's
“
eavesdropping
”.