The Pontoise court sentenced the deputy on Wednesday François Pupponi (MoDem), former socialist mayor of Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise). He will have to pay a fine of 5,000 euros for excessive expenses of 27,000 euros between 2004 and 2006. He had used the bank card of a public company.
The court condemned him for facts “misuse of corporate assets, forgery and use of forgery“, said Thursday the prosecution.
“The court considered that the facts of which I have been accused are not so serious but I will nevertheless appeal, because I completely dispute them.“François Pupponi responded by pointing out that he received only one”weak” sadness.
François Pupponi allegedly spent 27,000 euros unduly
The deputy was accused of having used SEM Chaleur’s credit card for personal purposes, the company in charge of the heating of 40,000 Sarcellois, when he was president.
According to Le Parisien, he would have made withdrawals and notes from restaurants and hotelsin Paris or in the provinces, for more than 27,000 euros.
the prosecution had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 euros.
The court has retained the prescription facts for the period from January to 29 June 2004.
He has it sentenced for the rest to a fine of 5,000 euros.
The reaction of the mayor of Sarcelles Patrick Haddad
The mayor of Sarcelles (PS) Patrick Haddad in a statement taken “act of this decision without commenting on it“, most I know “satisfied“that SEM Heat, 60% owned by the city,”be officially recognized as a victim of abuse of social good by Mr. Pupponi when he chaired it“.
Patrick Haddad adds that “other troubled elements appear in the past management of this SEM, so that we will continue to use all the legal means at our disposal so that light is shed and justice is done until the end“.
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