The mother-in-law of MP Thierry Solère (LREM) and the Deloitte cabinet were recently indicted as part of an investigation, in Nanterre, targeting this close adviser to Emmanuel Macron, a source close to the government said on Tuesday May 3. AFP file.
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His mother-in-law was indicted on March 30 for "
concealment of embezzlement of public funds
", said the close source, confirming information from Mediapart.
She is suspected of having held a fictitious job at the National Assembly for fourteen months, between 2015 and 2016. The firm Deloitte, which employed Thierry Solère between 2011 and 2012 by paying him 20,000 euros in fees, was put in examination on April 1 for "
active influence peddling
".
"Tax fraud" and "illicit financing of election expenses"
The wife of Thierry Solère, who was his parliamentary collaborator between 2012 and 2017, was placed under the status of assisted witness, less incriminating than that of indicted.
Contacted by AFP, Thierry Solère, current political adviser to the president, denounced the pursuit of a "
judicial cavalry
".
These new lawsuits are part of a judicial investigation opened in Nanterre in 2019, where the elected official, aged 50, is indicted for thirteen counts, including "
tax evasion
", "
fictitious employment
" and "
illicit financing of election expenses
”.
The last indictments against him were pronounced on January 31, in particular for “
passive influence peddling
”.
He is suspected of having "
used his influence to obtain contracts
" for real estate companies between 2007 and 2017 and for a consulting company, between 2011 and 2012, according to the Nanterre prosecutor's office (Hauts-de -Seine), interviewed in January.
He was also indicted for breaches of reporting obligations to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP).
The investigators suspect him, among other things, of having failed to declare, in 2014, “
a substantial part of his interests, in particular under his activities as a consultant in the period preceding his election
”.
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Thierry Solère sent AFP a letter from the HATPV on Tuesday explaining that the list of "
all of the clients
" of a consultant was not a mandatory element to provide - which would clear him according to him.
Regarding the new indictments, Thierry Solère assured that his mother-in-law gave him "
weekly activity reports
" by e-mail.
Regarding the Deloitte firm, the former vice-president of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council brushed aside the suspicion of "
active influence peddling
", assuring that his contract "
excludes any work in the Hauts- de-Seine
Seine
" and that he was then only a "
simple opposition municipal councilor in Boulogne-Billancourt
".
His defense again requested, in April, the annulment of the legal proceedings.
The Versailles Court of Appeal renders its decision on July 1.
