According to our information, Yves Juhel, the mayor of Menton, has been in police custody since Tuesday morning.
Other people were arrested, including his wife. Mathieu Messina is also in police custody, according to a source close to the case.
“I can only confirm that the mayor has been in police custody since this morning. But I have no further comment to make at this stage.”reacts his lawyer Philippe Soussi.
Hearings that take place in the context of the SPL affair, Ports de Menton. The former Menton deputy is suspected of having spent around 700,000 euros in expenses in a dubious manner.
On the menu: champagne, caviar, truffles, trips, clothes… But he also implicated the Chief Magistrate, indicating that certain sums had been used to fill holes in Yves Juhel’s campaign accounts.
An initial report was made to the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli, on October 6, 2023.
The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes was alerted by numerous internal sources within the municipality, as was the public prosecutor who was then bombarded with reports.
The case opened for embezzlement of public funds, money laundering by an organized gang and financing of the electoral campaign is now in the hands of the Jirs of Marseille, the jurisdiction specializing in major financial crime.
