• Bernard Brochand is accused of having knowingly omitted to mention in his statement to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) accounts at the Swiss bank UBS credited to a total of more than 1.2 million euros.

  • The prosecution, which requested a year in prison, asked that the sentence be adjusted in the form of house arrest under electronic surveillance.

This Wednesday in Paris, the prosecution requested three years in prison, two of which were suspended against Bernard Brochand.

The former mayor of Cannes, LR deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes, is on trial for not having mentioned accounts in Switzerland in his declarations of assets and for laundering tax fraud.

The criminal court will deliver its judgment on April 5.

In the absence of the 83-year-old Dean of the National Assembly, the representative of the public prosecutor's office requested that the firm part of the sentence be arranged in the form of house arrest under electronic surveillance, with a bracelet.

He also claimed three years of ineligibility and, given the significant “resources” of the parliamentarian, the maximum penalty of 375,000 euros fine for laundering tax fraud or 600,000 euros if the court decided to reclassify the facts.

A sum of 1.2 million euros, or 3% of the heritage of the elected

Bernard Brochand is accused of having knowingly omitted to mention in his statement to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) accounts at the Swiss bank UBS credited to a total of more than 1.2 million euros, held since 1973. The former mayor of Cannes is also being prosecuted for laundering tax fraud between 1996 and 2014, linked to these same Swiss accounts and their interests.

The deputy's lawyer asked for "leniency" from the court: Bernard Brochand, who will not be a candidate for re-election, "absolutely does not deserve a sentence of ineligibility" or a prison sentence, pleaded Me Antoine Vey.

The latter assured that the omission was not intentional, this account having been “completely forgotten” by his client.

The sums paid came from "lawful remuneration" and, representing only 3% of Bernard Brochand's assets, they were "not substantial", he insisted.

Rare fact, in this case, a judge had refused to approve a sentence of eight months in prison suspended and 200,000 euros fine, proposed in 2017 by the prosecution as part of a procedure of appearance on prior recognition of guilt. (CRPC).

Bernard Brochand had lodged an appeal in cassation against this refusal, leading to the postponement of the trial.

His appeal had been declared inadmissible.

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