Overview

• On May 20, a Paris appeals court found Jean-Christophe Cambadélis guilty of diverting €114,057 from his indemnité représentative de frais de mandat for personal costs.
• He was handed an eight-month suspended prison term, a €60,000 fine now fully suspended and a five-year ineligibility, mirroring his lower-court sentence aside from the fine’s full suspension.
• A judge homologated the ruling on May 27 through comparution sur reconnaissance de culpabilité (CRPC), a procedure introduced on appeal earlier this year.
• Prosecutors determined the allowance covered unauthorized expenses including rent, energy bills, party subscriptions, campaign spending and a family trip to Prague.
• The Haute Autorité pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique flagged his and 14 other deputies’ expenses in late 2018 as part of broader efforts to tighten political finance transparency.