Anticor takes legal action to look into the actions of the Valls government. The anti-corruption association filed a complaint against X on June 20, suspecting motorway concessionaires of favoritism during the conclusion of the Motorway Recovery Plan (PLA) in 2015, the association said on Wednesday.
This case “has a direct economic impact on citizens,” said Anticor President Elise Van Beneden. “It is obvious that the State could have collected more royalties, and the citizens, to pay less expensive tolls”, affirms it. The complaint, revealed on Wednesday by “Complément d’Enquête” and Mariannethen consulted by AFP, denounces “an exceptional enrichment of the motorway concession companies which can exactly be analyzed as an unjustified advantage”.
A protocol supervised in 2015 by Élisabeth Borne and Alexis Kohler
In 2015, a memorandum of understanding worth nearly 3.3 billion euros was signed between dealers and the State, more particularly the Ministries of the Economy and the Environment, headed by Emmanuel Macron d on the one hand and Ségolène Royal on the other. It was Alexis Kohler, current secretary general of the Elysée, and Elisabeth Borne, current Prime Minister, who took care of the negotiations, note “Complementary investigation” and Marianne. They then headed the cabinets of Emmanuel Macron and Ségolène Royal respectively.
Anticor believes that the debt ratio retained in the PLA was “manifestly undervalued”. This “makes it possible to increase the theoretical remuneration of motorway concession companies whose extension of the concession contract is requested”, writes the association, suspecting “a completely unjustified advantage and contrary to the public interests”.
Asked by AFP, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) said on Wednesday that it had not yet received the complaint, which it will have to analyze before deciding whether or not to open an investigation. As a reminder, a few days ago, Anticor’s legal approval was withdrawn. The association denounced a “serious attack on freedoms of association”.