The former Minister of the Interior was imprisoned in Paris on Monday, pursuant to a 2017 conviction which the courts considered did not meet the obligations.
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“Claude Guéant paid this Thursday all of his debt to the Public Treasury thanks to loans granted to him by relatives”, announces his lawyer Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi at France Télévisions and Radio France, Sunday December 19. A request for an adjustment of the sentence of the former Minister of the Interior, imprisoned Monday under a conviction of 2017 in the case of the cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior, was presented to the judge.
Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi explained, on the day of imprisonment, that his client still owed “pay a sum of 115,000 euros” and that he was paying “for two years 3,000 euros by me which are seized on his pensions in the amount of 5,500 euros” and claimed that he only had 1,600 euros a month left and could not pay more.
Justice decided to imprison Claude Guéant, 77, considering that he did not make the necessary payments to pay the fine of 75,000 euros and the damages he had been inflicted. He had also been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, one of which was fixed, but had received a modified sentence and was serving him on parole.