French Deputy Mayor Indicted for Fraud and Influence Peddling Ahead of Election
Abdel Ait-Omar, first deputy mayor of the town of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a French commune located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the Île-de-France region, was indicted this Wednesday evening after spending 36 hours in custody.
The first deputy mayor and also a candidate in the municipal elections next Sunday, is involved in a case of influence peddling, forgery and use of forgery, Le Parisien specified.
It all started with denunciations from some shopkeepers in the city and the falsification of contracts and pay slips of the first deputy mayor’s association. This is what the judicial investigations, searches and seizures have confirmed.
A senior real estate executive is also indicted in the same case, because he would have paid bribes to several associations of the first deputy mayor in the prospect of winning contracts at the municipal level and in the city.
The case is causing a stir in the municipality, and is delivering a blow to the election campaign for the municipal elections on Sunday. Serenity is no longer in order in the ranks of the running mates of the first deputy mayor, who are asking many questions about the direction things will now take.
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