Imprisoned for almost two months, the former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant, 77, was granted a Conditional liberation and must leave the Health prison on Wednesday, his lawyer told AFP. The former director general of the national police, who was also secretary general of the Elysée under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, had been imprisoned since December 13, a first for a former tenant in Beauvau. Justice had estimated that he did not pay on time the sums he had been ordered to pay in 2017 in the case of cash bonuses from the Ministry of the Interior.
A few days after his incarceration, Claude Guéant had made a request for accommodation, examined on January 19 by a sentence enforcement judge, who rendered his decision on Monday. Meanwhile, the former minister was sentenced on January 21 in his absence in another case, that of the Elysée polls. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, including eight months for favoritism, with a deferred committal order.
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