Two police officers were indicted on Wednesday in Paris with a ban on practicing, as part of an investigation into suspicions of corruption in the middle of Parisian pounds, AFP learned from a judicial source.
The two chief sergeants, placed in police custody on Monday, were presented on Wednesday to an investigating judge who indicted them for passive corruption by a person holding public authority, misappropriation of the purpose of a file and violation of professional secrecy, according to the same source.
One was also indicted for death threats and abuse of authority, the other for illegal taking of interests.
Corruption case
They were placed under judicial supervision with, in particular, a ban on practicing.
According to a source close to the case, the two police officers are suspected of having obtained advantages in exchange for services permitted by their position.
In this judicial investigation opened at the end of October after a preliminary investigation, two people have already been indicted on December 8.
The boss of the Inter Dépannage impoundment company, Chafic Alywan, is being prosecuted in particular for active corruption, complicity in breach of professional secrecy, complicity in misappropriation of the purpose of processing personal data, abuse of corporate property or still carrying out concealed work.
He was remanded in custody.
The other, a former official of the prefecture of the Paris region, was indicted for passive corruption and concealment of property from an abuse of corporate property.
He was placed under judicial supervision.
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According to
Le Parisien
, Chafic Alywan, a 50-year-old of Lebanese origin, "
is suspected of having won the good graces of powerful protectors, who would have facilitated his business, opened doors and would have protected him
".
“
In exchange, some of them would have maintained their personal vehicles for free, and for years, in one of the car garages that the entrepreneur has in the Hauts-de-Seine
”, adds the Parisian.
The City of Paris, which recovered the competence of the pounds and pre-pounds of the Prefecture of Paris at the beginning of 2018 and signs contracts with private companies for the removal of vehicles, indicated that it had expedited an inspection mission.
