At least one case settled for the Keeper of the Seals. The High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) announced Tuesday that it was not going to transmit to justice the omission of 300,000 euros of income in the declaration of interests of the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond- Moretti, believing that there was no “intentional character”. In his declaration of interests, tax audit imposed on all ministers in connection with the tax authorities and under the control of the High Authority, Éric Dupond-Moretti failed to declare, in his 2018 and 2019 income, 300,000 euros drawn from rights author.
These copyrights, linked to the show he played in the theater when he was still a lawyer, should have generated 180,000 euros in taxes, his entourage had indicated. "The declaration of interests mentioned salaries but only part of the copyright, even though they had been declared to Urssaf and the detailed accounts appeared in its declaration of financial situation", specifies the HATVP.
After analyzing his file, the High Authority considered that this omission "and the circumstances in which they occurred were not of an intentional or substantial nature with regard to" the heritage of Eric Dupond-Moretti.
"No transmission to the public prosecutor's office therefore took place at the end of these checks", but the Keeper of the Seals had, "at the request of the High Authority, to rectify (his declaration) in order to ensure its accuracy and sincerity. », Specifies the HATVP.
"It was my current accountant who realized an error that had been made by his predecessor" and "as soon as this error was pointed out to me, I informed the tax administration on my own initiative", s 'was defended the Minister.
Roselyne Bachelot also concerned by an omission in her declaration
The same body also reveals that the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot "failed to mention in her declaration of interests part of the remuneration received from SARL RBN Conseil, a company which it wholly owns, in respect of 2017 income," 2018 and 2019 ”, as well as“ omitted to declare certain copyrights for the same years ”.
As for Mr. Dupond-Moretti, the HATV considered that the nature of these omissions were not “of an intentional or substantial character with regard to” the heritage of the Minister.
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The revelation by Mediapart and L'Opinion of the minister's omission came a few days before his indictment for "illegal taking of interests", pronounced Friday by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR).
He is suspected of having taken advantage of his position as minister to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had trouble when he was a lawyer, which he refutes.
Éric Dupond-Moretti said he was "more determined than ever to be fully Minister of Justice", during a trip Monday in the Oise, reaffirming to be "serene" in the face of the prosecutions of the CJR, the only one empowered to judge cases. members of the government for offenses committed in the performance of their duties.