Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth has an appointment with justice. The senator from Guyana was sent back to the Cayenne criminal court for “habitual concealment of embezzlement”, a judicial source said on Thursday. It is even “an aggravating circumstance” specifies this source.
Two successive former directors of the Cayenne hospital center, Pierre Pauchard and Dominique Delpech, as well as the director of human resources, are also sent to court for “embezzlement”.
Damage estimated at nearly 230,000 euros
Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth, mayor of Cayenne from 2010 to 2020 and president of the CACL (urban community), is accused of having continued to receive her salary as a speech therapist from the funds of the Cayenne hospital, without practice there, “between January 1, 2013 and April 30, 2016”.
During the preliminary investigation by the prosecution, the financial affairs department of the Cayenne hospital estimated the damage for the establishment at nearly 230,000 euros for the period from January 1, 2013 to April 2016 (salaries and social charges) . During her hearing, the senator, a member of the Rally of Democrats, Progressives and Independents (majority) in the upper house, affirmed that she had continued to work at the hospital “full-time in 2013, 2014 and partly in 2015”, according to this judicial source.