Bettencourt affair
Under the name Bettencourt affair, a political scandal in France is known. The focus is on the accusation of illegal party donations of the richest woman in France, Liliane Bettencourt, to politicians from the ruling UMP party, especially on the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and Labor Minister Eric Woerth.
The affair was made public on 16 June 2010 by publishing a notice in Media Part for the first time. My family was a dispute between Liliane and her daughter Francoise Bettencourt- Meyers to reason, in the course of which it came to the suspicion of tax evasion and illegal party financing.
The measures introduced in this context, criminal proceedings are in progress ( November 2010).
History
Family dispute
Françoise Bettencourt- Meyers sued in 2008 the confidant of her mother, the photographer François -Marie Banier, for fraudulently obtaining of gifts valued at one billion euros. In addition, she struggled to her mother's incapacitation. In order to prove their allegations, she commissioned in 2008 and 2009, the worker of her mother, take personal calls secretly. The sound recordings she handed to the police. They were different media leaked.
2009 failed the daughter with her request that her mother had to be put under guardianship. This in turn sued her daughter in 2010 because of " mental cruelty " in a court in Nanterre. On 6 December 2010 Françoise Bettencourt- Meyers did announce that it had withdrawn all judicial proceedings brought by her and that she had taken with her mother an agreement whose content is not intended for the public.
On 17 October 2011, the Guardianship Court in Courbevoie in Paris Liliane Bettencourt placed under the guardianship of her eldest grandson, Jean -Victor Meyers. Your assets will be managed by Françoise Bettencourt- Meyers and her two grandchildren.
Financial affair
From the recordings, the suspicion was that Liliane Bettencourt have evaded taxes by bringing nearly 80 million euros in Switzerland, moved a further portion of their assets to Singapore and the Treasury concealed possession of the Seychelles Island D' Arros.
State affair
The sound recordings during the summer of 2010 on a government crisis, because Bettencourt conservative politicians - including Nicolas Sarkozy - said to have handed over cash for years. Solely in the 2007 election campaign to the Labour Minister Eric Woerth received in his capacity as treasurer of the UMP 150,000 euros as a donation to the party. Since political contributions are only allowed up to 7,500 euros a year in France, it would be illegal payments. President Sarkozy dismissed the Vorwürf in a television interview in July 2010 as "lies" back.
According to Isabelle Prévost - Desprez, President of specializing in financial crimes chamber of the Court of Nanterre, gave two witnesses (one of Bettencourt's nurse ) to have seen the transfer of the cash transfers to Sarkozy. Both gave but for fear of reprisals their statements not on record. Bettencourt's nurse received claims to death threats and withdrew their statements.
On 17 October 2011, the head of the domestic intelligence Bernard Squarcini, was charged in connection with the supervision of a journalist of the newspaper Le Monde as a "witness with legal counsel ," a mixture between witness and defendant. He was charged along with Police Chief Frederic Pechenard the phone calls of journalists to have evaluated. Target should have been in the Bettencourt affair informants.
On March 21, 2013, the Justice rose in Bordeaux charges against Sarkozy. The coroner accuses him of having taken advantage of the physically and mentally weak health Bettencourt, to obtain from her considerable funds for his election campaign in 2007. On September 24, 2013, the Court of Appeal rejected in Bordeaux from the discomfort of Sarkozy and the co-defendants. This particular kept the medical expertise to dementia Bettencourt's validity. On October 7, the investigating judge dropped the charges against Sarkozy.