The mayor of Paris, headed by the socialist Anne Hidalgo, seized its ethics committee about his deputy for Europe, Hermano Sanches Ruivo, heard by the police for suspicions of laundering of tax fraud, she said. Thursday, December 9.
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The City of Paris "
learned through the press of the hearing by the police of Hermano Sanches Ruivo,
" she said in a statement.
According to
Le Parisien
, Hermano Sanches Ruivo would have been taken into police custody in October to be heard on a tax fraud laundering offense, "
following an anonymous denunciation
".
The person concerned denied to the newspaper that he had been in police custody.
Suspected of illegal taking of interests
Contacted by AFP, the entourage of the elected (PS group and related) was not immediately reachable. Even if the “
alleged facts
” seem “
unrelated to the exercise of his elected mandate
”, the City has “
decided to immediately seize the City's Ethics Commission in order to carry out the necessary verifications and draw all the consequences
”.
If he were to be indicted, Sanches Ruivo "
will leave office without delay
," said the town hall.
Wednesday, after a previous article by
Marianne
evoking "
an elected representative of the majority
" suspected of illegal taking of interests, the City had told AFP that it was not aware of such a case that could justify informing the National Prosecutor's Office Financial via article 40.
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In November, a former elected official, Jean-Louis Missika, urban planning assistant during Anne Hidalgo's first term, had to resign from a mission committee of the Novaxia real estate group because of a "
major ethical problem, a conflict of interest which could, if necessary, become a criminal problem,
”commission chairman Yves Charpenel told AFP.
For the former first Advocate General at the Court of Cassation, it was an “
obvious conflict of interest
” since Jean-Louis Missika “
had himself participated in deliberations on these subjects and in particular in the 'respect for the company Novaxia
'.
