The trial of seven people, including a former LR vice-president of the Var departmental council and former deputy mayor of Toulon, for suspicion of favoritism and illegal taking of interest in the awarding of a contract for incinerator of some 500 million euros, opened on Monday in Marseille.
The former elected Jean-Guy Di Giorgio chaired the Intermunicipal Syndicate of transport and waste treatment of the Toulon area (Sittomat), during the renewal in 2012 of the public service delegation for the operation of the incinerator of the Toulon conurbation, then owned by the Suez group.
Illegal taking of interest
Jean-Guy Di Giorgio is being prosecuted alongside the former directors and technical director of Sittomat and three managers from the companies Pizzorno Environnement, Idex Environnement and the Zephire group, set up by these two manufacturers for this market.
They are accused of acts of favouritism, illegal taking of interests and abuse of corporate assets, or their concealment. A seventh defendant, presented as close to the former director of the Sittomat, is being prosecuted for concealment of favoritism, for having benefited from an architectural subcontracting contract.
The case had been triggered by anonymous information sent to the Toulon prosecutor’s office, information which had announced, even before the results of the call for tenders in October 2012, the award of this contract to Zéphire, a new player in the sector. The amount of the contract was 470 million euros over eighteen years.