2 French ministers are on trial for corruption

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised a model republic while Labor Minister Olivier Dusupt and his Justice Minister Eric DuPont Morety are on the brink of collapse on charges of corruption.

Thus in France, speculation is mounting about a change in government as two key cabinet ministers are due to appear in court. Labor Minister Olivier Dusupt is suspected of favoring the Saur water supply company when awarding a public contract. As mayor of the small town of Annonay in 2009, the 45-year-old politician is said to have flouted public tender rules. denied these charges. “I am here to provide information to the court and to prove my good faith,” Dusupt said. The minister noted that the prosecution rejected four of the five charges.

This charge is against the French minister who gave confidential information about the tender to the head of Saur. proposed. Based on the investigator’s findings, he has also changed the tender criteria. As a result, the company Saur with the most expensive offer finally received an order worth 5.6 million euros. The minister faces up to two years in prison if convicted.

This story was revealed in 2020 by the left-wing online editorial team Mediapart. The Minister of Labor has been accused through the transcript of the 2009 meeting. The researchers also have an email in which Dusopt asked its employees to adjust the criteria. The Labor Secretary has been conspicuously cautious in recent weeks and has not defended the new immigration law he helped draft. France is also expected on Wednesday. The prosecution has requested a one-year suspended sentence for him. According to the indictment, this 62-year-old politician committed legal violations as soon as he took office. He has initiated internal proceedings against an investigating judge and three public prosecutors with whom he previously engaged as a lawyer. The worse charge against him is that DuPont Murty has published conspiracy theories against the Union of Judges and Prosecutors.

His case is the first for France. Never before has a then Minister of Justice been charged in France. If the members of the special court convict him, Macron will no longer be able to keep this minister for himself.

At the beginning of his presidency, Macron promised a “model republic”. And in 2017, it passed a law to “moralize politics”. In his first term as president, the initial suspicion was enough for ministers to resign.

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