“The fake can become the real thing” | EUROtoday

Marine Le Pen, emotionless, watched for eight lengthy hours, Wednesday October 30, in Paris, the sluggish sinking of her accounting companies. The prison court docket, on the fifteenth day of the trial of the FN assistants of the European Parliament, regarded into the monetary machine of the occasion, and the query is crucial: is it a sum of particular person and random hirings of fictitious assistants, or a system rigorously organized by the motion?

The reply will not be doubtful. There are two accounting companies to have succeeded each other, the primary, from 2004 to 2011, is that of Christophe Moreau, who prides himself on by no means having belonged to any occasion. The agency is a 3rd occasion payer, that’s to say it attracts up and indicators the contracts of the deputies and their assistants, requests their assist in Brussels, then receives the European windfall – i.e. 21,000 euros per thirty days and per deputy, then 26,000, at this time 30,000 –, distributes it to events and publishes the pay slips.

The activity was not insurmountable: there have been solely seven FN deputies from 2004 to 2009, then three till 2014 and the affair solely represented 1% to three% of the turnover of the Moreau cupboard. . An assistant gave him the listing of contracts, then arbitrated by Jean-Marie Le Pen; he carried out the work, with out worrying an excessive amount of concerning the actions of assistants from one deputy to a different. “That was a lot of musical chairs, agrees the expert, but I didn’t know the motivation. Instructions were given to me. »

The objective was to clear European budgetary envelopes, insists the president?

– “Not necessarily”says the accountant, who corrects himself. ” Certainly “. He did not see something stunning: “When I was in the army, we left the engines running to use up fuel stocks”…

There is figure. The occasion instructed him, “the amounts in red are the modifications: three months of Légier on Marine [Thierry Légier, le garde du corps de Jean-Marie Le Pen, assistant parlementaire comme Marine Le Pen est évêque]Légier’s complement on Jean-Marie Le Pen, the bonuses on the president. » Christophe Moreau does not worry about anything, and especially not whether the deputies and assistants were presented with a fait accompli, or whether they worked for the party or for the European Parliament; “I continued my mission, I was not going to take police measures, I don’t see why I would have been suspicious”. Not even when he will get Le Pen’s bodyguard to signal a faux contract, with a faux pay slip to get well 41,504 euros in three months and sums owed on one other contract.

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