Macronist MP Karl Olive sentenced to eight months in prison for illegal taking of interests

The deputy (Together for the Republic) of Yvelines and former mayor of Poissy Karl Olive was sentenced Monday, November 18 to eight months in prison for illegal taking of interest during his municipal mandate, the Versailles judicial court announced in a press release. In the process, Mr. Olive announced his intention to appeal.

The elected official was found guilty of having “committed acts of illegal taking of interest by participating in recruitment” of the son of the former deputy general director of Poissy services as director of youth and sports of the city “under conditions based on an arrangement allowing freedom from the rules of appointment of the civil service”according to the court press release.

The former councilor also attributed to the father “staff accommodation for which the fee was undervalued”also believes the court. The latter and his son were found guilty and sentenced to suspended prison sentences of four and six months.

“Form of nepotism”

During the hearing on September 24, the public prosecutor denounced “a form of nepotism by Mr. Olive condemned by the rules of the territorial civil service” motivated by the “bonds of friendship” spoken with his co-defendants. “I have always considered that there was no question about what was proposed by the financial department, the HR department or the legal department” to ask, argued Karl Olive, who claims to have simply done ” trust “ to his team.

The Yvelines MP criticized this judgment in a press release sent to AFP, arguing that these decisions had been “voted in 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 embezzlement of public funds”he declared.