Jean-Luc Moudenc combines his political mandates as mayor and president of Toulouse Métropole with a professional activity at the Ministry of Finance. The Anticor association suspected a fictitious use and took legal action. The Toulouse prosecutor’s office has just closed the case without further action.

No violation. This is the conclusion of the Toulouse prosecution acting from the combination of activities of Jean-Luc Moudenc. The mayor of the 4th city of France is also a senior official in the Ministry of Finance. He has held this position since 2008, following an appointment by the President of the Republic at the time, namely Nicolas Sarkozy.

According to figures provided by Jean-Luc Moudenc himself on the website of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP)this post of general economic and financial controller (CGefi) was remunerated between 102,000 and 59,000 euros per year over the period 2015-2019. The anti-corruption association Anticor then suspected a “embezzlement of public funds“, in other words, a fictitious job.

The Anti-Corruption Association made a report to the public prosecutor of Toulouse in December 2021. This January 17, 2023, the weekly Marianne reveals that the preliminary investigation leads to a classification without follow-up.

In 2018, France 3 Occitanie questioned Jean-Luc Moudenc to find out how he could combine a Toulouse agenda worthy of a “minister” and, in addition, a job as a senior civil servant in Paris. The mayor of Toulouse perfectly assumes a situation which he describes as transparent.

Jean-Luc Moudenc is therefore not surprised by the decision of the Toulouse prosecution.

I am not surprised given that the publicized accusation does not correspond to the truth and emanates from an association whose only but in this file is to harm my image.

Jean-Luc Moudenc, Mayor of Toulouse

For its part, the association Anticor could relaunch the case and do not stop at this classification without continuation of the Toulouse prosecutor’s office.

Anticor confirms having received a classification notice drawn up by the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office. It is the Parisian headquarters of the association which manages the “Moudenc” file. And, according to its representative, Clarence Bathia, the only information communicated by the Toulouse justice concerned a classification for “absence of infringement”.

Also according to Anticor, additional information was sent by the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. But they still haven’t arrived on the desk of Anticor’s lawyers. As Clarente Bathia points out, “we will wait to know the reasons and the arguments” of the Toulouse prosecutor.

All options are on the table.

Clarence Bathia _ Anticor Lawyer

Depending on the elements, filing a complaint with civil action could revive the case. Anticor specifies that, in this failure, it would be the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office which would be seized.