The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, said in a press release that he would be removed from office if indicted.
The deputy mayor of Paris in charge of Europe, Hermano Sanches Ruivo, was heard by the police on suspicion of laundering tax fraud.
“The Mayor of Paris has decided to immediately seize the City’s Ethics Commission in order to carry out the necessary checks and to draw all the consequences”indicates the municipality in a communicated adding that in case “of indictment of the person concerned, he will leave his functions within the City without delay” even if “the alleged facts (…) seem unrelated to the exercise of his elected mandate”.
According to The ParisianHermano Sanches Ruivo would have been placed in police custody in October to be heard on a crime of laundering tax evasion, “following an anonymous denunciation”. The person concerned denied to the newspaper that he had been subjected to the police custody regime.
The case started this Wednesday, after the publication of an article by Marianne evoking “an elected majority” suspected of illegal taking of interests. The City of Paris had stated that it was not aware of such a case that could justify informing the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office via article 40.
Hermano Sanches Ruivo is 55 years old and was born in Portugal. He has been a Paris Councilor since 2008 in the 14th arrondissement and Deputy Delegate for Europe since 2020. According to his declaration of interests, the elected official has no other professional activity.
He is not the first elected official of the municipal majority to be implicated. In November, the former town planning assistant, Jean-Louis Missika, had to resign from a mission committee of the Novaxia real estate group because of a “major ethical problem, a conflict of interest which could, if necessary, become a criminal problem”said the chairman of the commission Yves Charpenel.
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