Accused of having used public funds for personal purposes, the former Rhône deputy Bernard Perrut will be tried for embezzlement of public funds. According to information from Worldthe elected representative of Les Républicains (LR) is summoned before the Paris Criminal Court on September 14 for having illegally spent part of his compensation representative of mandate expenses (IRFM), up to approximately 100,000 euros, over the period 2015 -2017.
Bernard Perrut is also being prosecuted for failure to fulfill his reporting obligations vis-à-vis the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP), responsible for monitoring the declarations of ets and interests of public officials. According to the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), which confirmed to the World legal proceedings, he is accused of “false evaluation of his heritage by reduction” and an “failure to declare a substantial part of his ets”. His lawyer, Bruno Quentin, confirms his client’s upcoming trial but does not wish to comment further on the case: “We reserve our explanations for the court. »
Arrived at the National embly in 1997, Bernard Perrut occupied the seat of the ninth district of the Rhône until June 2022. During the last legislative elections, he gave way to Alexandre Portier, for whom he nevertheless remains a substitute. The elected Rhone still has a last mandate as regional councilor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, after leaving the chair of mayor of Villefranche-sur-Saône in 2017.
Two parliamentarians sentenced at the start of the year
Bernard Perrut is one of the twenty parliamentarians whose examination of the mandate expenses has led the HATVP to take legal action since 2018. Each time, the High Authority has estimated that many expenses had no connection with the mandates of the elected officials concerned, which could constitute a misappropriation of the IRFM, which is supposed to be used solely to cover the costs incurred in connection with their parliamentary activities.
If some of these files have been clified by the PNF – nine after the refund of the sumsanother in the absence of any observed infringement – others are still under investigation, like the one aimed at former LR MP Thierry Solère, unofficial adviser to Emmanuel Macron. Another procedure concerns the former socialist interior minister Bruno Le Roux (2016-2017), also suspected of having employed his daughters in the National embly when he was a deputy.
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