ex-minister Kader Arif sentenced to one-year suspended prison sentence for favoritism

The prosecution had requested a two-year suspended prison sentence against the former member of the Ayrault and Valls governments, as well as a ban on holding public office for five years.

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The decision has fallen. The former minister of François Hollande, Kader Arif, was sentenced on Wednesday October 26 to a suspended one-year prison sentence by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) for having awarded a public contract to a company managed by his brother .

The prosecution had requested a two-year suspended prison sentence against the former member of the Ayrault and Valls governments, as well as a ban on holding public office for five years.

If the amounts involved (60,000 euros) are “modest”, “Such behavior testifies to a conception of the State which is not acceptable and which goes against the principles of exemplarity and probity” that is expected of a public official, had estimated the attorney general at the Court of Cassation François Molins, who represents the prosecution at the CJR. His defense had called not to condemn him “on a misunderstanding”.


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