One of the former CEOs of the French subsidiary of Ikea, Jean-Louis Baillot, was sentenced on appeal on Friday to a four-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 euros, a lighter sentence than at first instance, in the spying on hundreds of employees between 2009 and 2012.
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The Versailles Court of Appeal (Yvelines) acquitted him of "
receiving personal data by fraudulent means
" and found him guilty of "
complicity in the collection of personal data
" concerning the case of a executive in 2008. Ikea France had been sentenced in June 2021 to a fine of one million euros, but had not appealed.
