Between 2009 and 2019, she had embezzled more than 400,000 euros: the honorary president of a parents' association in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) was sentenced, this Tuesday, December 10, to 12 months in prison with reprieve. She will also have to reimburse all of the embezzled sums.
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429,475 euros. This is the sum embezzled by the former administrative and financial director, who became honorary president, of a local branch of the Federation of Parents of Public Education (PEEP) in Le Havre, between 2009 and 2019.
A sum that the suspect mainly used to buy luxury handbags.
Prosecuted for “breach of trust, aggravated money laundering” and “forgery and use of forgery”, the defendant – victim of illness shortly before the hearing and evacuated by the firefighters – did not attend his trial .
At 73 years old, this retiree had, until 2019, used the same operating method to embezzle these funds: she regularly issued checks in the name of the local association, by falsifying minutes, before withdrawing the amounts from these cash checks.
Resources mainly came from subsidies from the Normandy Region and contributions from parents.
Watch this report from the hearing by Adrien Develay:
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In Le Havre, a former association leader sentenced
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The court found her guilty of the alleged offenses and sentenced her to 12 months in prison, suspended on probation, and was banned from holding associative functions. She will also have to reimburse all of the sums collected from the association, which has become ASET (Association of schooling and mutual aid for all).
The public prosecutor denounced the economic layoffs that she allegedly implemented while she herself had “siphoned” the accounts of the structure.
According to the association's lawyer, in the summer of 2019, “only 4,000 euros remained in the account“The president of the court qualified the case”quite easy to judge“, tant “the enormity of the scheme” was “manifest“.
The former president of the association, aged 79, was also present at the helm. The courts accused him of having been aware of the embezzlement. The latter admitted having been “negligent“.
Released for the breach of trust, he nevertheless received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for complicity in money laundering. He will also have to pay 18,000 euros in damages to the association.
The two defendants have ten days to appeal the court's decision.
