On Monday December 5, 2022, Christophe Leuret, former General Manager of Crédit Municipal de Bordeaux, will appear before the Bordeaux Criminal Court on trial for favoritism in the awarding of contracts to auctioneers.
His lawyer, Mario Pierre STASI, pleads for acquittal: “Discussing my client’s management is one thing. But characterizing an offence is quite another.
In early 2018, the contract that bound the establishment to its historic auctioneer came to an end. However, the call for tenders found no takers.
At the helm, Christophe Leuret pleads the need for continuity of service. ” Without an auctioneer, everything would grind to a halt,” says the senior civil servant, now Inspector General of the Environment.
The former deputy general manager of the City of Bordeaux swears that he never had any objective other than to “earn more to lend more”, and to stick to a procedure that he considered to be in order, his contract having failed to find a candidate.
