The former LR deputy for Rhône was found guilty of having diverted nearly 87,500 euros of his compensation representing office expenses for personal purposes.
:quality(50)/2023/07/06/64a68815cd1a7_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/05/13/080-hl-norchard-1646647-6642252ebde80742113020.jpg)
Former Les Républicains MP Bernard Perrut, political figure from Beaujolais, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 60,000 euros for embezzlement of public funds, Monday May 13. The 67-year-old former deputy for Rhône was found guilty of having used part of his compensation representing mandate expenses (IRFM) for personal purposes, for an amount of approximately 87,500 euros.
He is also found guilty of failing to fulfill his reporting obligations to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP), particularly concerning the value of his assets and life insurance contracts. The Paris criminal court also sentenced him to a five-year ineligibility sentence, but Bernard Perrut, who is still LR regional councilor in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, is not obliged to leave his current mandate.
Bernard Perrut had claimed during the hearing to be “a little bit messy” and having acted by “ease” to manage your costs. But the court considered that these breaches had a “voluntary character”. The acts for which the former mayor of Villefranche-sur-Saône was convicted were committed between March 2015 and June 2017, before the replacement of the IRFM by the advance of mandate fees (AFM) in January 2018 .
