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Affair of the mayor of Agde: suspected of having participated in the financing of the clairvoyant's work, the Eiffage executive released on bail

2024-04-12T20:22:05.557Z

Highlights: A woman presenting herself as a “medium’ would have succeeded in placing relatives under influence, including the mayor of Agde, so that they would care for her. Gilles d'Ettore "disputes" that "hundreds of thousands of euros of public money were embezzled", assured his lawyer. The executive of the Eiffage company was released by the investigating chamber of the court appeal court in Montpellier, with a deposit of 50,000 euros. A father and his son, likely to have participated in the financing of work in the house of the “clairvoyant”, were “indicted on counts of active corruption, abuse of corporate assets to the detriment of the hypermarket and abuse of trust”. The Béziers public prosecutor's office also indicated that two other men were taken into custody on Wednesday. The case is being investigated by the National Court of Justice in Paris and the National Prosecutor's Office in Paris.


A woman presenting herself as a “medium” would have succeeded in placing relatives under influence, including the mayor of Agde, so that they would care


The Eiffage executive was released. He is suspected of "having participated in the secret financing of work carried out at the home" of the "clairvoyant", in the case which saw the mayor of Agde, Gilles d'Ettore, be placed in detention and indicted in particular for illegal taking of interests and corruption.

By modifying her voice, this alleged medium would have succeeded in placing the mayor of Agde under influence, in order to make him believe that they were “in conversation with a supernatural being coming from the beyond”, according to the Béziers prosecutor. , Raphaël Balland. She would have taken the opportunity to encourage the councilor to “concern about the well-being of this woman, including materially”. If he concedes, "under the influence of this woman", that he may have committed some "failures", Gilles d'Ettore "disputes" that "hundreds of thousands of euros of public money were embezzled", assured his lawyer.

Deposit of 50,000 euros

Placed in pre-trial detention on March 30 after his indictment on charges of “abuse of corporate assets and active corruption”, the executive of the Eiffage company was released by the investigating chamber of the court appeal court in Montpellier, with a deposit of 50,000 euros. He is also required to “fix his residence in Calvados” and not to go to the headquarters or agencies of his company, nor to “come into contact with several people”, as part of a judicial control.

The Béziers public prosecutor's office also indicated that two other men were taken into custody on Wednesday. A father and his son, managers of an SCI and a hypermarket in Agde, likely to have participated in the financing of work in the house of the “clairvoyant”, were “indicted on counts of active corruption, abuse of corporate assets to the detriment of the hypermarket and abuse of trust to the detriment of the SCI”.

Source: leparis

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