Marine Le Pen, impassive, observed for eight long hours, on Wednesday, October 30, in Paris, the slow collapse of her accounting offices. The criminal court, on the fifteenth day of the trial against FN assistants in the European Parliament, examined the party’s financial apparatus and the question is essential: is it a sum of individual and random hiring of fictitious assistants, or a System rigorously organized by the movement?
The answer is not in doubt. There are two accounting firms that have followed one another, the first, from 2004 to 2011, is that of Christophe Moreau, who is proud of never having belonged to any party. The company is a third-party payer, that is, it writes and signs the contracts of the deputies and their assistants, requests their support in Brussels and then receives the unexpected European money: 21,000 euros per month and per deputy, then 26,000. today 30,000 –, distributes it to those interested and publishes the payrolls.
The task was not insurmountable: there were only seven FN deputies from 2004 to 2009, then three until 2014 and the issue only represented between 1% and 3% of the turnover of Moreau’s cabinet. An assistant handed him the list of contracts, later arbitrated by Jean-Marie Le Pen; He did the job, without worrying too much about the assistants’ movements from one deputy to another. “There were many musical chairs, the expert agrees, But I didn’t know the motivation. They gave me instructions. »
Was the objective to clean up European budget allocations, insists the president?
– “Not necessarily”says the accountant, who corrects himself. ” Certainly “. He didn’t see anything shocking: “When I was in the army, we left the engines running to deplete the fuel reserves”…
There is work. The party told him, “The amounts in red are the modifications: three months of Légier en Marine [Thierry Légier, le garde du corps de Jean-Marie Le Pen, assistant parlementaire comme Marine Le Pen est évêque]Légier’s complement to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the bonuses to the president. » Christophe Moreau is not concerned about anything, and even less so whether the deputies and assistants have encountered a fait accompli, or whether they have worked for the party or for the European Parliament; “I continued my mission, I was not going to take police action, I don’t see why I would have been suspicious”. Not even when he gets Le Pen’s bodyguard to sign a false contract, with a false payroll to recover 41,504 euros in three months and sums owed for another contract.
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