Modest Pierre Maudet occurs rarely. Even when his lies were on a trip to Abu Dhabi is known. “I am a man of Power,” defended the Geneva in a TV Interview. And added immediately: “I am not a man of money.”
For the relationship of Power and money in the case of Pierre Maudet, the Geneva Prosecutor’s office is interested now. She has Maudet, the statements of account of the support Association, the “Association de soutien à Pierre”. Even this newspaper you are. The documents show that the money for its election campaigns, the 40-Year-old had to make in the last few years, never Worry. Between 2012 and 2018 to fins Maudet around 393’000 Swiss francs. Private bankers, real estate and hotel entrepreneur and Private paid him tens of thousands of francs. Individual transferred several times high amounts. The Prosecutor will have to clarify the question: Has his money Maudet donors something to paid back? If Yes, in what currency? For Maudet, the presumption of innocence applies.
flashback: Geneva on 2. April 2012 to 19 PM. The FDP Board of Directors of the city of Geneva meets for one session. Pierre Maudet. It’s about a lot: It provides the opportunity to promote shooting star advocate-General of the Geneva city government in the Council of state. A few weeks earlier, Mark Muller (FDP) was kicked out of the Canton government. He had a fight in a night club with a bartender.
“I admit to have lied”: Pierre Maudet apologized to the FDP General Assembly for his lie and his misconduct. Video: SDA
“The machine will immediately put in motion,” promise the party sizes of the urban FDP. They wanted drums for Maudet “in the streets”, it says in the minutes of the meeting. The Assembly decides, as a transfer start-up financing of his election campaign, to 20’000 Swiss francs. Maudets the election campaign is informally launched.
on the 31. In March 2012, he founded the assistance Association Pierre Maudet. Maudet acts as Secretary. 10. April opened the club in an account with post Finance. As the 20’000 Swiss francs, of the FDP arrive on the account, is there already other money: 2500 Swiss francs. A Transfer from the Geneva communications Agency, “Cabinet privé de conseils”. In the next days Cash: 10’000 Swiss francs from the real estate company Valartis, 30’000 Swiss francs from the Geneva hotel chain Manotel, 30’000 Swiss francs of private banker Bénédict Hentsch flows, even 45’000 Swiss francs from a campaign Fund “coven Fazy-Favon” of the radical party, which controlled Maudet. Nor is the candidate of the FDP Maudet once officially. But on account of his 140’000 Swiss francs. And more and more money is coming from.
a Lot of money from a small circle
An analysis of the contributors shows that it is a small, intimate circle of supporters. Many of the wires come together at the Geneva lobbyists Philippe Eberhard. The Agency, founded in “Cabinet privé de conseils” has made the first Deposit. The next donor, the transfer of five-digit amounts, have relationships to Eberhard. At the real estate company Valartis Eberhard’s friend and former promoter Alain Rolland the Board of Directors. Rolland was Eberhard’s first client when he founded his own communication Agency. The hotel chain Manotel, in turn, is today a customer of Eberhard’s Agency. According to the Prosecutor’s office has referred the hotel group 105’000 Swiss francs Maudets support the club and the “circular Fazy-Favon” and Pierre Maudet to 40. Birthday financed a big Party for 200 guests. The Cost: 20’000 Swiss Francs.
Recruited Eberhard at Manotel and Alain Rolland for donations to Maudet? “Never,” answers Philippe Eberhard. Of his own donation, Eberhard says: “This approach is common and legal. In 2012 I was convinced: This man is brilliant for Geneva.” Pierre Maudet writes, Eberhard’ve been looking for its support of the Association any monies. “I believe in the personal contacts of the managers in Geneva and Valartis. This is no secret,” says the Council of state. The Manotel Transfers up to 30’000 Swiss francs are for Maudet “default sums”.
Maudet was not yet an official candidate. However, on account of his 140’000 francs.
Felt Pierre Maudet to Eberhard to services required? Also this question is answered in the negative Maudet. In any way, he said he felt obliged, even more than the donation of Eberhard modest had been and seven years.
When the Geneva Prosecutor is analyzing the relationships between Maudet and its donors, will look at the personnel Eberhard yet. The reason jobs like that, the Eberhard’s Agency in 2018 at the Greater Geneva Berne area (GGBa) is fulfilled. Pierre, President of GGBa, an office for the promotion of the location of the West-Swiss cantons is Maudet. Eberhard says on request but: “We have never received a mandate from Mr Maudet. We work for the corporate sector.” Maudet, in turn, explains the mandate of Eberhard had been under his predecessor, the neuchâtel state Council, Jean-Gained Karakash. Maudet was at that time Vice-President of the GGBa. On request Karakash know but neither Eberhard nor would him present is that you gave the Geneva mandate. He didn’t know but also every mandate, that may be forgiven, and pushes for the new Burger. What is certain is that An invitation to tender for the job.
Maudets great use for Uber
a different mandate raises a number of questions. Eberhard is a consultant of the car service company Uber. Maudet, in turn, made the policy hard to change the cantonal law in a way that Uber can hold in Geneva on foot. Lobbyist Eberhard says: “the taxi law has ultimately to be decided by the Parliament. Pierre is the direct contact person was not Maudet.” Maudet does not conceal that it was in the Dossier About the meetings, and thus proximity between his Department and Eberhard. A love story was the basis of the non-Maudet. His people had struggled to Uber and Eberhard’s Agency, he says.
The support of the Association Pierre Maudet. The Board has it resolved, the donations account in February 2018 closed, a few weeks before the Geneva elections last year, in which Maudet, a sensational result achieved. Maudet explained the resolution that he already knew that he would need the club: “I decided that this would be my last campaign.” The statement irritated: because Maudet was confirmed in April 2018 as the Council of state. At the time of the dissolution of the Association, the Prosecutor’s office conducted because of his trip to Abu Dhabi and the suspected benefit of adoption is already a criminal case – against unknown, but with the advocate-General as Respondent.
But even the resolution of the Association took place under questionable circumstances. The President of the Association, a companion Maudets and chief auditor of the Geneva cantonal administration, took care of the assets of the Association of 57’008 Swiss francs and 65 centimes. He transferred the sum in five tranches to the private account of Pierre Maudet. The lawyer and FDP national councillor Christian Lüscher said recently of the opinion that the procedure should be compared with techniques when Committing financial crimes. Maudet says, in July of 2018, he had paid 50’000 Swiss francs in the coffers of the FDP, Geneva. Late so, and with some difficulty. The FDP party Executive wanted to know who had donated the money originally. Pierre Maudet decided to declare it as a personal donation.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 24.01.2019, 22:22 PM
