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The Nice public prosecutor was contacted following the report from the anti-corruption association Anticor. The investigation was opened on May 31.
An investigation was opened by the Nice public prosecutor’s office for embezzlement of public funds, targeting the president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti, during his campaign for the last legislative elections, in 2022, according to franceinfo. The Nice public prosecutor was contacted following the report from the anti-corruption association Anticor. The investigation was opened on May 31.
Use of parking cards at the port of Nice
This report comes from an Anticor referent, according to our colleagues, himself a candidate in these same elections in another constituency in the Alpes-Maritimes. It concerns the misuse of parking cards at the port of Nice made available free of charge by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to relatives of MP LR, in conjunction with the Departmental Council. Eight cards would have been used.
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Another preliminary investigation for embezzlement of public funds concerning him was already opened on January 22 around suspicions of multiple jobs at the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council which may have benefited Éric Ciotti, the Nice prosecutor’s office announced in mid-May .
