According to a pure player investigation, the Loire-Atlantique MP used his “Advance mandate fee” account for his personal use. He was caught in mid-October trying to buy drugs on the metro in Paris.
We have known since mid-October that France Insoumise MP for Loire-Atlantique Andy Kerbrat regularly consumed narcotics. Surprised in the metro trying to buy 3M™, a synthetic drug also called “new cocaine”, the elected official admitted the facts which he had attributed to a «addiction» and of “personal problems”.
What we didn't know, however, and what reveals Mediapart this Friday, November 15, is that Andy Kerbrat would have financed his consumption thanks to his AFM account – for advance of mandate fees – which the Assembly funds each month. This sum, which amounts to 5,950 euros according to the Assembly website, should allow deputies, who already receive a monthly allowance of 7,600 euros gross, to cover their elected expenses.
“During the entire year 2023, a period during which his drug use peaked, the elected official […] made large cash withdrawals, often in the middle of the nightécrit Mediapart. He also used his AFM to transfer money directly to his personal account or make unjustified payments with the Paypal and Lydia applications. All for almost 25,000 euros.” Still according to the pure player, these withdrawals would have been used to buy drugs or to compensate “expenses linked to its consumption”.
Kerbrat admits to having done “anything”
Elected deputy in 2022 then re-elected in 2024, it was after the death of his mother at the end of 2022 that he said he started using drugs “every week or almost”, in the “framework of practices related to chemsex»the name given to sexual relations under narcotics. This consumption would have influenced his parliamentary work – he was regularly absent from the Assembly and was sanctioned with withholding compensation in 2023 for his repeated absences from the law committee.
Contacted by MediapartAndy Kerbrat confirms having done “anything” with his money order fees and having used the envelope for his personal use. On the other hand, he denies that this money was used directly “to buy drugs”. He also says he reimbursed these expenses to the Assembly “on the basis of a calculation that he would have made with his accountant”explain Mediapartor around 25,000 euros. Andy Kerbrat has, despite this obvious fraud, not been worried, since the checks of MPs' expense reports are carried out randomly and the thirty-year-old was not drawn in 2022 and 2023. For the moment, the MP did not talk about resigning.
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