The director of a hospital and an Ehpad in the Loire, suspected of having embezzled 250,000 euros in five years, was indicted and banned from practicing, Thursday, November 18 in Roanne, according to the prosecution.
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At the end of 48 hours of police custody, Gaële Jackson-Pownall, 49, was indicted for "
embezzlement of public funds
" and "
concealment of aggravated money laundering
", told AFP the public prosecutor. Abdelkrim Grini Republic. "
She was released with a judicial control which prohibits her from exercising a management function of a health establishment or of a medico-social structure
", he added.
The investigation, opened in February by the gendarmerie after a report from the Regional Health Agency to the prosecution, resulted in the arrest of the suspect Tuesday at her home. The 40-year-old from the Var, a graduate of the Rennes School of Public Health Studies, had been running the Charlieu hospital and the Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu nursing home in the north of the department since May 2015.
She is suspected of having awarded, in June 2015, a contract of convenience service of 57,000 euros per year to a former soldier to whom she was very close, who died in 2020. The month preceding the award of the contract, the latter had created , in the Gard, a property and personal security consultancy company of which the two Loire health establishments have become the sole clients.
The investigation revealed that most of the services were fictitious and that the director benefited from financial and material compensation.
