one 12 months suspended jail sentence for the present chief and his predecessor | EUROtoday

Bad publicity for the CGT. Seven officers and former leaders of its National Agri-Food and Forestry Federation (FNAF) had been condemned, Thursday, October 31, by the 15^e legal chamber of the Bobigny courtroom in a case of embezzlement. The heaviest sentences – twelve months suspended jail sentence and 5 years of ineligibility – had been handed down towards the present secretary normal of this group, Julien Huck, and his father Alfred, who had held the identical place. perform beforehand, for greater than twenty years. The resolution casts a shadow over the defendants and their union whereas reviving – recurring – suspicions concerning the financing of social actors.

Justice opened this case following a report made by a former member of the FNAF-CGT authorities. Johnny Neto wrote in June 2018 to the Bobigny public prosecutor’s workplace to denounce makes use of that he considers opposite to his conception of activism. The letter to the general public prosecutor depicts a “family clan”made up of the Hucks, father and son, in addition to their respective companions, who would have lower the federation to line their pockets. In passing, a number of of their comrades would have benefited from these generosity. “Mafia abuses”thundered M^e Cédric Alpée, certainly one of Mr. Neto’s attorneys, in the course of the trial which passed off on September 20 and 21.

The debates in the course of the legal listening to had been largely devoted to 2 alleged offenses. The first considerations the acquisition in 2015 of a home in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) by a companion group of the FNAF, for somewhat over 400,000 euros. For roughly three years, the house was made accessible freed from cost to Julien Huck and his companion, with out this profit in variety being declared.

The courtroom considers, in the present day, that it was a “breach of trust” with hurt (for the proprietor group) linked to non-payment of lease. On the opposite hand, the acquisition of the property itself was not irregular, as a result of it didn’t end in a lack of revenue, within the eyes of the magistrates: the operation may even be seen as worthwhile, the lodging having change into dearer. the worth.

“Many relaxations”

Second alleged breach, which attracted a lot consideration from the courtroom: the cost of compensation to Alfred Huck and two former FNAF executives. These “allowances”, between 37,000 and 98,000 euros, relying on these involved, for the interval 2015-2019, had been used to compensate the three males who had continued to assist to their group though that they had left. retired.

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