Europe 1 with AFP 3:36 p.m., January 26, 2023
The Paris Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced the former Minister of Justice Michel Mercier to a three-year suspended prison sentence for having granted fictitious parliamentary jobs to his wife and one of his daughters between 2005 and 2014.
The Paris Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced the former Minister of Justice Michel Mercier to a three-year suspended prison sentence for having granted fictitious parliamentary jobs to his wife and one of his daughters between 2005 and 2014. Nicolas' former minister Sarkozy (2010-2012), aged 75, was guilty of "embezzlement of public funds" for having paid, as part of his duties as a senator, 50,000 euros in salary to his wife, Joëlle, between 2005 and 2009, and 37,000 euros to his daughter, Delphine, from 2012 to 2014.
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