Postponed.

The hearing on the merits of the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, indicted for illegal taking of interests, by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which was to take place on Monday, should take place on Thursday March 3, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The Minister of Justice has already been heard on July 16, 2021 for nearly six hours by the CJR's investigation committee, the only court authorized to prosecute and try ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions.

At the end of this interrogation, he was indicted for “illegal taking of interests”.

During the next interrogation, he should be heard on the merits, as usual in this type of procedure.

Judicial information for "illegal taking of interests"

After complaints from magistrates' unions and the anti-corruption association Anticor denouncing situations of conflict of interest in two files, the CJR had opened in January 2021 a judicial investigation for "illegal taking of interests".

Eric Dupond-Moretti, appointed Keeper of the Seals in July 2020, is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had had trouble with when he was a lawyer, in two files.

The first concerns the administrative investigation he ordered in September 2020 against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) who had had his detailed telephone bills peeled ("fadettes") when he was still a star in the courtrooms.

In the second case, he is accused of having instituted administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge seconded to Monaco, Edouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients and whose methods he had criticized " cowboy”.

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