Four Metropolis officials will be heard as witnesses on May 14 regarding jobs in the valleys after storm Alex. This time, it is two inspectors from the city of Nice who wrote a report on the La Madone road site, in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, the director of public markets and the director of finance of the regional roads “.
Open legal information in Marseille
These are the results of the information opened, on February 20, by the Marseille prosecutor’s office for “misuse of public funds by a person holding a public authority or responsible for a public service mission, fraud, forgery, use of deception and concealment of these crimes. has carried out reconstruction work after the damage caused by storm Alex in the fall of 2020 in the Alpes-Maritimes region. An investigation is entrusted to the jurisdiction that specializes in serious financial crime, Jirs.
Continue with the dragnet on March 12
On March 12, during a massive search conducted by sixty gendarmes from the Marseille investigative department, twenty people were arrested. Among them, a close colleague of the President of the city, Christian Estrosi and business leaders from the Tinée and Vésubie valleys. All have been released without charge at this stage of the investigation. But investigations are continuing. Inquiries were made. More than 6 million euros were seized from the bank accounts of some companies in the valleys, and luxury vehicles with an estimated value of more than 600,000 euros were taken by the gendarmes.
Companies in the spotlight
At the beginning of the investigation, the report made by the Metropolis to the public prosecutor of Nice in February 2023. He then opened a preliminary investigation. The community suspects that fraud was committed by companies that were paid to do work that was not done or was not done. The targeted companies defend themselves and deny, for their part, a system imposed by the Metropolis itself.
