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The former minister, Claude Guéant, was imprisoned in the prison of Health, Monday, December 13, for a conviction on appeal in the case of cash bonuses which dates from 2017. A decision of the Paris Court of Appeal , because the 76-year-old former statesman was not paying the fines he had been imposed.
Claude Guéant, former Minister of the Interior and very close to Nicolas Sarkozy, has been imprisoned since Monday, December 13 at the Health prison in Paris. A court decision taken in application of this conviction dating from January 2017, linked to the so-called bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior. Between 2002 and 2004, Claude Guéant then chief of staff of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Ministry of the Interior, granted himself 105,000 euros in undue cash bonuses. Salary supplements that he never considered illegal. “It was money that had no tax status”, he said.
Sentenced to two years in prison, one of which is firm and to 105,000 euros in damages and 75,000 euros in fines, Claude Guéant would have made only a third of the necessary transfers. That’s why he was jailed for nine months, a decision “incomprehensible”, according to his lawyer. The latter indicated that he would seize the sentence enforcement judge, citing the fragile state of health of his 76-year-old client.