Suspected conflict of interest: Éric Dupond-Moretti heard again by the CJR on February 28

The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti will be heard again on February 28 by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) in the investigation aimed at him for suspicion of conflicts of interest, said Thursday, January 13 a judicial source, confirming information from BFMTV.

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The Minister of Justice had already been heard on July 16, 2021 for nearly six hours by the investigative committee of the CJR, the only court empowered to prosecute and judge ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions. At the end of this interrogation, he was indicted for "

". On February 28, it will be an examination on the merits, as usual in this type of proceedings. After complaints from magistrates' unions and the anti-corruption association Anticor denouncing situations of conflict of interest in two cases, the CJR opened a judicial investigation in January for “illegal taking of interests”.

Éric Dupond-Moretti, appointed Minister of Justice in July 2020, is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had trouble when he was a lawyer, in two cases.

The first concerns the administrative investigation that he ordered in September 2020 against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) who had had his detailed telephone records ("

") scrutinized when he was still a star in the courtroom.

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In the second case, he is accused of having initiated administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge seconded to Monaco, Édouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients and whose methods he criticized "

”.

Eric Dupond-Moretti insisted that he had only "

" of his administration.