The Renaissance deputy was sentenced this Monday, November 18 for having participated in recruitment at the town hall of Poissy “under conditions based on an arrangement allowing freedom from the rules of appointment of the public service”.
Renaissance MP Karl Olive was sentenced this Monday, November 18 to eight months in prison for illegal taking of interests during his municipal mandate in Poissy, the Versailles judicial court said in a press release.
Two other defendants, the current director of youth and sports in Poissy and his father, former deputy director of town hall services, were also found guilty. They were sentenced to suspended prison sentences of six and four months respectively, as requested by the prosecution, as well as a fine of 3,000 euros each.
The court found Karl Olive (ex-Les Républicains) guilty of “having committed acts of illegal taking of interest by participating in the recruitment (of the son, editor's note) in conditions based on an arrangement allowing freedom from the rules appointment of the civil service”.
“A form of nepotism”
The ex-edile also allocated the father “official accommodation for which the fee was undervalued”, adds the same source.
During the hearing on September 24, the prosecutor denounced “a form of nepotism on the part of Mr. Olive, condemned by the rules of the territorial civil service”, motivated by the “links of friendship” maintained with his co-defendants.
“I have always considered that regarding what was proposed by the financial department, the HR department or the legal department, there was no question” to ask, argued Karl Olive who assures that he simply “trusted” his team.
Karl Olive appeals
“Having regard to the date of the facts and the textual basis used for the prosecution, the court did not impose a sentence of ineligibility,” the court indicates.
The MP criticized this judgment in a press release, arguing that these decisions had been “voted on in the municipal council like thousands of others”.
“Ten years of procedure for two decisions taken two months after my election as mayor in 2014 and concerning two agents. No personal enrichment, no misappropriation of public funds,” he declared.
“This decision is a bad signal for the country's elected officials who, like me, commit tirelessly every day, but I will continue to fight, in the service of those administered and in the general interest,” Karl Olive also said.
The MP finally announced that he would appeal the decision rendered by the Versailles judicial court. “It is a question of principle, even if no penalty of ineligibility, nor fine, has been imposed,” the elected official finally concluded.
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