The former minister of Jacques Chirac, Lucette Michaux-Chevry, his daughter Marie-Luce Penchard, former Minister of Overseas under Nicolas Sarkozy and his grandson, Alexander Penchard were placed in custody in the framework of 'a case of alleged embezzlement, according to the judicial police.
An investigation of the national financial prosecutor. They have been heard since the beginning of the morning on rogatory commission of an investigating judge in the framework of an investigation of the national prosecutor's office, indicated the interregional direction of the judicial police of Guadeloupe to the AFP, confirming an information published in local media. The suspicions weigh on the conditions of realization of works of private order of these three personalities, with their personal homes but also in premises of the political movement of Marie-Luce Penchard.
It could be, according to the local media, an agreement allowing the works companies to obtain public contracts in Basse-Terre, of which Marie-Luce Penchard is the current mayor, and the community of agglomeration of the South -Basse-Terre, presided by Lucette Michaux-Chevry. The guard of a duration of 24 hours, could be prolonged.