The Minister Delegate for SMEs Alain Griset was sentenced this Wednesday by the Paris Criminal Court to six months suspended imprisonment and a three-month suspended ineligibility sentence for the “
incomplete or false declaration
” of his patrimonial situation.
The minister's lawyer, absent at the hearing, Me Patrick Maisonneuve, immediately announced that he was going to appeal this conviction.
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The prosecution had requested ten to twelve months suspended prison sentence against the minister for failing to declare, in August 2020, after his appointment to the government, part of his assets and his interests to the High Authority for Transparency of public life (HATVP). In government since July 2020, Alain Griset is the current Prime Minister to appear before a criminal court.
He was suspected of having intentionally concealed from the HATVP the holding of a stock savings plan (PEA) of 171,000 euros, as well as "
direct holdings
" in several companies such as Française des Jeux or Natixis.
Also in question, a sum of 130,000 euros placed on his PEA and which belonged to the National Confederation of Crafts, Trades and Services (Cnams) of the North, an inter-professional organization that Alain Griset had headed since 1991.
