THE Beauvais court delivered its deliberations this Tuesday, December 3. THE president of Somme departmental council Stéphane Haussoulier East sentenced For scam, whitening And breach of trust. He received a three-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 30,000 euros, as well as a three-year ineligibility sentence.
The Beauvais court did not order provisional execution. In other words, if Stéphane Haussoulier appeals, he will be able to remain president of the Somme departmental council.
Expense reports reimbursed in double or even triple
The magistrates accuse him of having embezzled around 370,000 euros over a period going from June 2016 to December 2023. These sums were allegedly embezzled within the framework of his various functions, as vice-president then president of the Somme department, mayor of Saint -Valery-sur-Somme, president of the Baie de Somme mixed union and secretary of the Hauts-de-France regional federation of public works. Stéphane Haussoulier is being prosecuted for having requested during this period double or even triple reimbursement of some 173 expense reports, reports France Bleu Picardie.
He went to the strip club with a community credit card
The magistrates also accuse Stéphane Haussoulier of having used several credit cards from the communities he managed for personal purchases (food, care products, train tickets, pastries from Pierre Hermé, spa services, cabarets or strip clubs -tease).
Absent this Tuesday, December 3 at the time of the deliberations, Stéphane Haussoulier had pleaded negligence at the bar of the court, his lawyers requesting the release of the president of the departmental council of the Somme.
