Reprieve for Karl Olive. The deputy (Renaissance) for the 12th district of Yvelines was sentenced this Monday to eight months in prison suspended by the Versailles judicial court. The elected official was prosecuted for illegal taking of interest while he managed the town of Poissy, between 2014 and 2020. The sentence was not accompanied by ineligibility. Karl Olive has announced his intention to appeal.
The magistrates accuse him of “having committed acts of illegal taking of interest by participating in the recruitment of the city's sports director (Boris Gros) under conditions based on an arrangement making it possible to free himself from the rules of appointment of the public service”, according to a press release from the judicial court cited by AFP.
Philippe Gros, Boris's father, former deputy general director of services, is also suspected of having benefited from “staff accommodation for which the fee was undervalued”. Two men, kingpins of the town's triathlon club, with whom the 55-year-old MP maintains friendly ties.
“But when I am elected mayor, I know half of the 1,000 agents! I am a child of Poissy, recalls Karl Olive, angry against the decision. The decisions taken on this issue were not made by the prince but were validated by an entire chain and voted on in the municipal council. There was no personal enrichment, no embezzlement of public funds. This decision is a bad signal for the country's elected officials who, like me, commit tirelessly every day. »
