The criminal court found the former Paris MP, now aged 73, guilty of embezzlement of public funds.
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Former Socialist Party leader Jean-Christophe Cambadélis was sentenced on Wednesday, September 4, in Paris to eight months in prison, suspended, and a fine of 60,000 euros, of which 30,000 euros was suspended, for having used 114,057 euros from his parliamentary mandate expenses for personal purposes.
The criminal court found the former Paris MP, now aged 73, guilty of misappropriation of public funds, considering that he had “knowingly used funds made available to him as part of the mandate expenses allowance (IRFM) for purposes contrary to their purpose”.
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis has “willfully transgressed the law”he said, stressing that these facts, “committed by an elected official of the Republic”wore “attack on the values of republican democracy”.
He was also sentenced to five years of ineligibility, and must still repay the National Assembly a little over 27,000 euros. This sentence is almost in line with the demands of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), which had requested eight months of suspended prison time and a fine of 60,000 euros, without suspension, as well as five years of ineligibility. His lawyer, Jean-Etienne Giamarchi, said he is considering appealing.
