Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt will be tried from November 27 to 30

The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt will be tried from November 27 to November 30 in Paris for suspicion of favouritism, learned franceinfo from a judicial source, confirming information from BFM TV.

>> Suspicions of favoritism: we summarize the case for you which could be worth a trial to Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor

The investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, opened in 2020, targets a contract concluded in 2009 between the current Minister of Labor, then deputy and mayor of Annonay, and a water treatment group, Saur. The PNF suspected an arrangement.

The investigation initially concerned two works of art offered in 2017 to Olivier Dussopt by a local manager of Saur. These are two lithographs by the painter Gérard Garouste, estimated at just over 2,000 euros. However, it is not for this affair of gifts of lithographs that Olivier Dussopt is worried, but for older facts discovered during the investigation which saw the police officers of the anti-corruption office search his home. They suspect an arrangement for a contract between the city of Annonay (Ardèche), of which Olivier Dussopt was deputy mayor, and Saur, the third French water treatment group.

Last February, Olivier Dussopt had “disputed” on France Inter the idea of ​​a “arrangement” with the water treatment distribution group when he was mayor of Annonay.

Olivier Dussopt “keep the confidence of the Prime Minister”reacted Friday, June 2, the entourage of Elisabeth Borne with franceinfo. “Justice continues its work independently”adds the same source, stressing that the Minister of Labor “will have the opportunity to present his arguments in court”.