The Macronist MP was sentenced this Monday, November 18 to eight months in prison for illegal taking of interests. The facts with which he is accused date back to his mandate as mayor of Les Républicains de Poissy (Yvelines).
The ax fell this Monday for the ex-mayor of Poissy, in Yvelines. Now a Macronist deputy at the head of the 12th constituency of Yvelines, Karl Olive was sentenced to eight months in prison for illegal taking of interests during his municipal mandate, relays franceinfo And The World. The Versailles judicial court thus found the elected official guilty of “having committed acts of illegal taking of interests by participating in the recruitment [du fils de l’ancien directeur général adjoint des services de Poissy en tant que directeur de la jeunesse et des sports de la ville ndlr.] in conditions based on an arrangement allowing freedom from the rules of appointment of the public service”. He is also accused of having allocated to the father “staff accommodation for which the fee was undervalued”.
Facts that the prosecutor herself described as a “form of nepotism” on September 24 in full court, motivated by “ties of friendship” between the co-defendants. The director of youth and sports of Poissy and the latter’s father were also found guilty on Monday in this case. The first was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 3,000 euros. The father received a four-month suspended prison sentence and also a fine of 3,000 euros. “Having regard to the date of the facts and the textual basis used for the prosecution”, the court did not, however, impose a sentence of ineligibility against Karl Olive.
Karl Olive, who last September argued that he had “always considered that, regarding what was proposed by the financial department, the HR department or the legal department, there was no question” and that he had just “trusted” his team, already indicated this Monday in a press release published on X that he intended to appeal the decision. “Ten years of procedure for two decisions taken two months after my election as mayor in 2014 and concerning two agents”, he deplores, insisting that he has made “no personal enrichment, no embezzlement of public funds”. Karl Olive also believes that “this decision is a bad signal for the country’s elected officials who are committed as [lui] every day without counting”.