Paris (AFP)

Compensation since July 2016 by the IGS training group, Jean-Paul Delevoye will repay the sums received since his appointment to the post of High Commissioner for pension reform in September 2017, said Thursday his entourage at AFP, confirming Liberation information.

Mr. Delevoye "reimbursed yesterday", Wednesday, the remunerations paid by IGS since he joined the government on September 3, assured the office of the High Commissioner, who was not able to specify the exact amount of this transaction.

According to his declaration of interests published on the website of the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP), his monthly remuneration was 5,368.38 euros net, as president of Parallax, a think-tank dependent on this training group.

Mr. Delevoye has therefore received more than 16,000 euros in the last three months, while the Constitution prohibits "any professional activity" to members of the government.

After this first repayment, his entourage adds that he "is about to do" also for the sums received since his appointment to the post of High Commissioner on September 14, 2017.

That is more than 107,000 euros net paid between January 2018 and August 2019.

In total, Mr. Delevoye has committed to repay at least 123,000 euros, according to the calculation of AFP.

A decision taken after the announcement Tuesday of his resignation from the presidency of Parallax.

He had then affirmed that he "proceeded to the repayment of the collected sums" if the HATVP estimated "estimated (that) his (her) activities with the IGS were incompatible with the exercise of (his) functions" of high -Commissioner.

The day before, Mr. Delevoye had already left his position of volunteer administrator of the Institute of training of the profession of the insurance (Ifpass), that he occupied since 2016 but did not mention in his declarations of interests as the Parisian has revealed.

"An error" and "an omission by forgetting", he explained, hoping that this first resignation would "close any controversy" on possible conflicts of interest, that the opposition parties did not fail to denounce in the midst of a social conflict over pension reform.

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