The Keeper of the Seals had been indicted for illegal taking of interests in 2021. This Tuesday, the public prosecutor of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) announced that it had requested his referral to the Court.

Eric Dupond-Moretti is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had had trouble when he was a lawyer in two cases.

According to a press release from the general prosecutor's office at the Court of Cassation, the public prosecutor judged that there were "sufficient charges" against the Keeper of the Seals to refer him to the Court of Justice of the Republic.

Labor and Anticor Complaints

The final decision on a possible referral of the minister to the court of the CJR now rests with the commission of instruction of the CJR, the only jurisdiction empowered to prosecute and judge ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions.

Éric Dupond-Moretti, appointed to the government in the summer of 2020, has been indicted for acts of illegal taking of interest since July 2021. Complaints from magistrates' unions and the anti-corruption association Anticor, denouncing two conflict situations interests since his arrival at the Chancellery, had given rise to the opening of a judicial investigation.

"Recommendations" of the administration

Summoned in March and April by the magistrates of the CJR on the two files, he refused to answer their questions.

The first file 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 of the bar.

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

Eric Dupond-Moretti has always insisted that he had only "follow the recommendations" of his administration.

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