Two chief sergeants were placed in police custody on Monday January 30, 2023 as part of an investigation into corruption in the Parisian pounds environment, according to AFP.
The two police officers were presented on Wednesday to an investigating judge who indicted them for passive corruption by a person holding public authority, misappropriation of the purpose of a file and violation of professional secrecy,
The two police officers are suspected of having obtained advantages in exchange for services allowed by their function, according to a source familiar with the matter.
One of them was also indicted for the death threat and abuse of authority, the other for the illegal taking of interests.
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Corruption case
The case was opened at the end of October 2022. After a preliminary investigation, two people have already been indicted on December 8.
Chafic Alywan, the boss of the impoundment company Inter Dépannage, is being prosecuted for active corruption, complicity in breach of professional secrecy, complicity in misappropriation of the purpose of processing personal data, abuse of social good as well as for the execution of concealed work.
He was remanded in custody.
A former prefecture official in the Paris region has been indicted for passive corruption and concealment of property from an abuse of corporate assets.
He was placed under judicial supervision.
The mayor of Paris launches an inspection mission
At the head of several pounds in Paris and Hauts-de-Seine, Chafic Alywan, a fifties of Lebanese origin, "is suspected of having won the good graces of powerful protectors, who would have facilitated his business, opened gates and would have protected him,” according to data from Le Parisien.
“In exchange, some of them would have had their personal vehicles maintained for free, and for years, in one of the car garages that the entrepreneur has in the Hauts-de-Seine”, underlines the Parisian.
The City of Paris, which recovered the competence of the pounds and pre-pounds of the Prefecture of Paris at the beginning of 2018 and signs contracts with private companies for the removal of the vehicles, declared to have expedited an inspection mission.
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