Suspicions of tax fraud: the deputy Thierry Solère (LREM) in custody

Suspicions of tax fraud: the deputy Thierry Solère (LREM) in custody
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/ Martin BUREAU

A few days after the lifting of his parliamentary immunity, the LREM deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Thierry Solère was placed in custody Tuesday morning in Nanterre, within the framework of an investigation which aims him particularly for tax evasion and corruption.

The deputy was heard since Tuesday morning, told AFP the floor of Nanterre, confirming information of the World, in the framework of a preliminary investigation conducted by the Central Office of struggle against corruption and financial and tax offenses (OCLCIFF).

The Nanterre public prosecutor's office opened an investigation into "tax fraud" in September 2016, following a complaint by Bercy.

The investigation it was later extended to the heads of "influence peddling, corruption, abuse of social property, illicit financing of election expenses and failure to report to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP)".

million. Solère was deprived of parliamentary immunity on 11 July, at the request of the public prosecutor's office. A request relayed to the President of the National Assembly by the interested himself who said he wanted "to be heard" in this case.

Asked by AFP, the lawyer of the deputy could not be reached in the Immediate Tuesday.

After chairing the organizing committee of the primary right, Thierry Solère had dropped in the middle of the presidential campaign François Fillon, as Bruno Le Maire and his family Edouard Philippe and Gérald Darmanin, all members of the government Emmanuel Macron today.

He was at the center of a controversy by being elected, in the name of "the opposition", Questor of the Assembly to the nose and beard of the LR Eric Ciotti, before to give up his post at the end of 2017. Excluded from the Republicans, a member time of the "Constructives" (become Agir), he joined the Republic en marche.

The facts which the investigators suspect it go back especially for the fiscal fraud, to the period 2010-2013, while i He was a regional councilor and lieutenant of Bruno Le Maire

The deputy worked in parallel as a strategic advisor in the private sector, particularly at Chimirec, a company specializing in the collection and treatment of industrial waste. A post that brought him "12,000 euros per month", revealed the site Mediapart in September 2016.

"Enrichment Occult"

In the summer of 2017, Le Canard chained revealed that Thierry Solère had "failed to settle a portion of his income taxes from 2010 to 2013, as well as the property tax of the last year ". An "oversight" that had earned him "a wage garnishment," according to the weekly.

The elected representative had instead claimed to have been subject to a "conventional control" and have "committed no fiscal offense. "

According to an article in the World of early July 2018, the floor of Nanterre also suspects Mr. Solère" to have used his influence "as" http://www.lepoint.fr / "elected local and national to help its client companies to obtain public contracts or approval of the public authorities".

The newspaper also evoked suspicions of hiring "fictitious character" of the wife of an ex- leader of Aliapur as a parliamentary badistant, who was "in charge of taking stock of the mid-term", "what she did," says the entourage of the elected representative.

It is in besides reproché, still according to the World, facts "of occult enrichment": "false loans" would have been granted by the companies of a real estate developer bind, allowing the acquisition of "three apartments" then resold "to these same companies by operating the pbadage of capital gains."

The Member vigorously contests any irregularity, relying on attestations of the end of repayment of several real estate loans, which AFP was able to consult

The promoter mentioned by Le Monde, a personal friend of the elected, denies any illegal transaction with the latter. He claims to have bought three apartments, but without having previously been the owner, said his entourage to AFP.

The businessman also acknowledges having granted him a loan, told tax services , but which does not concern these apartments.

This multi-faceted affair had a considerable collateral effect: suspected to have transmitted to Mr. Solère the details of the investigation concerning him, the former Keeper of the Seals Socialist Jean-Jacques Urvoas was indicted in June by the Court of Justice of the Republic for "breach of professional secrecy."

17/07/2018 12:31:49 –
Nanterre (AFP) –
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