Charges against the antipode of Emmaus values.... Four people, including the director and his deputy of the Tarn-et-Garonne branch in Occitania of the association founded by Abbé Pierre are, in fact, suspected of having committed a breach of trust and money laundering, as revealed by La Dépêche du Midi.
In 2019, after a chartered accountant reported a €57,000 hole in the accounts, the president of Emmaus Tarn-et-Garonne filed a complaint. "Cash misappropriation has been established. The hole identified is of the order of 57,000 euros over the year 2019. But the cash sums deposited in the accounts of the two leaders are much higher. We identified cash deposits in the accounts that they were not able to explain," a magistrate from the Montauban prosecutor's office told AFP.
"Accounting error excluded"
"The accounting error has been excluded," said the magistrate, who suspects personal enrichment, via "regular deposits".
Placed in police custody on Tuesday, the director and deputy director who manage the four branches of the department, as well as their wives have been placed under judicial control and are well prosecuted by the justice for "breach of trust" and "laundering".
All four deny the charges against them.
These two officials and their wives will be tried in correctional at the end of 2023. The trial date has been set for 28 November.
Questioned by AFP, the president of Emmaus Tarn-et-Garonne, Gérard Gineste, said he was "surprised by this rebound", saying he had "complete confidence" in his employees.
- Justice
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Occitania
- Midi-Pyrénées
- Toulouse
- Haute-Garonne
- Embezzlement
- Misappropriation of public funds
- Breach of trust
- Emmaus
- Fondation abbe pierre
- Montauban