Former Secretary of State Thierry Mandon sentenced to 12 months in jail | EUROtoday

Former Secretary of State Thierry Mandon (PS) was sentenced, Friday, November 15, to a one-year suspended jail sentence and a effective of twenty-two,000 euros for fraud linked to his former features as normal director of the Cité du design from Saint-Etienne (Loire).

Thierry Mandon, aged 66, was discovered responsible by the Saint-Etienne prison courtroom of“scams”, “attempted misappropriation of public property by a person holding public authority”, “forgery and use of forgery in writing” And “abuse of corporate assets”.

In addition to the jail sentences and fines, the previous director of the Cité du design of Saint-Etienne, from 2018 to 2022, is sentenced to 5 years of ineligibility in addition to a everlasting ban from chairing or directing a public institution, introduced the president of the courtroom, specifying that “the whole thing is immediately enforceable”.

He will due to this fact need to resign from his place as secretary normal of the National Commerce Council, which he has held since June 2023, acknowledged his lawyer, André Buffard. The determination to attraction “is under consideration”he added.

False invoices

Thierry Mandon was accused of a number of monetary crimes, between 2019 and 2021, for a complete lack of 22,000 euros, when he was each normal director of the Cité du design de Saint-Etienne and president of its business subsidiary, SAS City Services.

He admitted to having produced false invoices so as to finance, for almost 15,000 euros, a customized staircase at his Parisian residence and to have Cité Services reimburse 43 Paris-Saint-Etienne TGV journeys beforehand paid for by the Cité design, in addition to a visit to China which finally didn’t happen because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Denouncing “the meandering of Mr. Mandon’s bombastic explanations”the consultant of the prosecution had stigmatized “the embezzlement of public funds, even if it is pathetic in terms of its amount, on the part of a personality who has had a remarkable political career”however one “end of journey as a petty crook, abuser of society and embezzler of public funds”.

The protection had pleaded responsible, whereas emphasizing that the entire embezzled sums had been reimbursed by their shopper earlier than the report made in November 2022 by the president of the Cité du design, Marc Chassaubéné, additionally deputy for tradition of Saint-Etienne .