The president of the Hautes-Alpes department, Jean-Marie Bernard (LR), was heard on Tuesday by investigators from the Interregional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Marseille, learned the Dauphiné Liberated. Justice has doubts about the award of four public contracts and suspects in this file the elected official, re-elected last June, of “favoritism”, “false” and “use of false”.
Under the aegis of the Lyon public prosecutor’s office, competent in matters of complex financial offenses, justice is also investigating possible “embezzlement of public funds”, after the regional chamber of accounts pointed out suspicious expenditure made between 2012 and 2017 She wonders in particular about hotel and travel expenses, as well as the promotion of his wife, specifies the regional daily.