The public prosecutor’s office of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) had requested three years’ imprisonment with probationary suspension for three years. And this Tuesday, the former Minister of the Interior Claude Guéant was imprisoned for eighteen months, twelve of which were suspended on probation, for his 2012 legislative campaign expenses.
For the firm part of his six-month prison sentence, the court ordered a sentence adjustment, requesting house arrest under electronic surveillance. Claude Guéant, who was absent during the deliberation, was also fined 30,000 euros. His lawyer, Me Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi, has announced that he is appealing.
At the time, the essential man of the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, now 77 years old, was a candidate to be a deputy in Hauts-de-Seine. The prosecution accuses him of having knowingly reduced his campaign accounts and thus having obtained a reimbursement of more than 30,000 euros.