After two months of imprisonment, the former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant left the prison of Health on Wednesday morning in a car with tinted windows, confirmed to AFP his lawyer, Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi.
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Claude Guéant, 77, was detained on December 13 for failing to pay the fine and damages he was ordered to pay in the cash bonus case on time. of the Ministry of the Interior.
Justice had estimated that he did not pay on time the sums he had been ordered to pay in 2017 in the case of cash bonuses from the Ministry of the Interior.
A few days after being imprisoned, Claude Guéant had made a request for sentence adjustment, examined a month later, on January 19, by a sentence enforcement judge, who had reserved his decision.
Monday, February 7, the judge decided to authorize the release of the former senior state clerk, without an electronic bracelet, from Wednesday, according to Me Philippe Bouchez El-Ghozi.
In January, the lawyer had argued that his client had "
completely paid
" his debt to the public treasury via loans granted by his relatives and that in prison, his "
health situation (could only) deteriorate, with regard to of the triple pathology
" from which he suffers.
The prosecution issued a favorable opinion on his requests.
