The facts date back to 2009. When he was mayor of Annonay, a town in the Ardèche. The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt will be tried next November for a case of awarding a water management contract, indicate judicial sources.
Olivier Dussopt was summoned to appear for favoritism by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) last week. According BFM TV which reveals the information, the hearing will be held from November 27 to 30 before the 32nd chamber of the Paris court.
He “keeps the confidence of Prime Minister” Elisabeth Borne, AFP learned on Friday from the latter’s entourage. “Justice continues its work independently. (Olivier Dussopt) will have the opportunity to put forward his arguments in court,” added the same source. The minister will be tried for favoritism in a case relating to a public contract concluded as mayor in the late 2000s with the water treatment group Saur.
“It is a thesis that I dispute”
This PNF investigation relates to the awarding of a public contract at the end of the 2000s to Saur, a water treatment group, by the town of Annonay (Ardèche) of which Olivier Dussopt was then mayor. As revealed Mediaparta search had revealed “exchanges” between the elected official and Saur “seeming to leave little doubt about the existence of an arrangement around a public contract dated 2009-2010”.
The water treatment group is being prosecuted for concealment of favoritism, and Olivier Brousse, former manager of Saur, for complicity, said the judicial source.
“It is a thesis that I dispute”, he had assured on France Inter, adding that he was going to “explain how things happened” but that he reserved “for the investigators (his) answers on the merits”. “I will continue to say that my position is a position of good faith” had hammered the former mayor of Annonay.
2023-06-02 16:59:55
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