the Somme departmental council searched, a number of days after the resignation of the president | EUROtoday

The Somme departmental council was raided as a part of an investigation in opposition to .

Searches had been additionally carried out in “places in which Mr. Haussoulier does not exercise any mandate or function”laid out in an electronic mail to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the general public prosecutor of Beauvais, Frédéric Trinh.

The investigation which, in response to the regional each day Picardy Courierconsiderations the circumstances by which public contracts had been awarded, was entrusted to the analysis part of the Amiens gendarmerie.

Asked by AFP, Mr. Haussoulier assured that he had not “never sat on a tender committee” and all the time have “let the services do the work”. He mentioned he didn’t know what alleged details had been being investigated.

Fees reimbursed a number of instances

On December 6, Mr. Haussoulier (numerous proper) introduced that he was resigning from the presidency of the departmental council following his conviction by the Beauvais legal court docket. A resignation below stress from members of his majority, who felt that he now not had their belief and that of residents.

He was sentenced on December 3 to 3 years of suspended imprisonment, three years of ineligibility – with out instant impact – and a fantastic of 30,000 euros for embezzlement of public property, fraud and cash laundering, a conviction which he appealed .

He was notably condemned for having taken benefit of his numerous political {and professional} hats to acquire double, and even triple, reimbursements for journey and restaurant bills, between 2016 and 2023.