As part of the financial aspect of the SEMIACS case, whose heavily criticized management led to the indictment of two officials, several people were taken into custody this Wednesday, including members of the leading union, the CGT,
The management of SEMIACS by its former leadership was strongly criticized.
In its report in September 2015, the Regional Chamber of Accounts mentioned the “extent and recurrence of irregularities.”
The scandal broke out in 2013 and at that time cost the director general of SEMIACS, Henri Alonzo, and its former president, Benoรฎt Kandel, former first deputy of Nice, their positions. Both were indicted for organized fraud, favoritism, concealment of favoritism, illegal interest-taking, embezzlement of public funds, active and passive corruption, misuse of company assets, forgery, and witness tampering for the period between 2010 and 2013.
It remains to be seen what new discoveries have been made in a case that does not seem ready to close…
