The conclusions of the regional chamber of accounts (CRC), released in a detailed report on the activities of the Management Center for Territorial Public Service of the Alpes-Maritimes (CDG 06), suggest that Pierre-Paul Leonelli and Lauriano Azinheirinha, two Nice elected officials close to Christian Estrosi, were hired and paid by a departmental public structure without the reality of their work being confirmed, fueling controversies in the local political world.
The CRC reviewed the management of the CDG 06 from 2015 to 2019 and yet concludes that the reality of full-time effective work by these two officials appears “more than doubtful.”
Of course, Pierre-Paul Leonelli and Lauriano Azinheirinha defend themselves against any accusations of “fictitious employment.” The CDG 06 claims on its part that “these situations are strictly controlled by the administrative judge and invalidated in case of irregularity” and points out that “this was not the case.”
These observations were transmitted this Wednesday by Jean-Christophe Picard, the former president of Anticor (a national association aiming to fight against corruption and proclaiming itself a “sentinel” of public morality), who is now a municipal and metropolitan councilor (Ecologists group), in a report to the public prosecutor of Nice.
“All these anomalies being likely to be qualified on a criminal level, I would appreciate it if you could take the necessary actions in this matter and keep me informed,” concludes the one who likes to consider himself the “white knight of ethics” in his letter addressed to the Public Prosecutor.
We’ll see whether this action will be a blow into the water or the leverage point of a small scandal that could upset the local political world and its balance.
