Monday, September 8, 2014

Jérôme Kerviel finds freedom – Le Nouvel Observateur

Jerome Kerviel is free. The former trader at Societe Generale was released on Monday morning of September 8, from prison to finish under electronic tagging the sentence he was sentenced for causing 4.9 billion loss at Societe Generale.

definitively sentenced in March to five years imprisonment, three farm, the former trader will have spent a little more than 150 days, nearly five months in detention.

I’m really happy to get out today. It will be easier for me, my family. I welcome the prison staff, who brought me some help during these months of detention, “said he dropped to his release from prison Fleury-Merogis (Essonne).

He received, against the opinion of the prosecutor, a reduced sentence to go to ask an electronic bracelet to the insertion and probation service. A control box will be installed at his home that will Prison Service to ensure it complies with its hourly output, since the convicted is still technically “under-nut.”

“Resume lifetime perfectly normal”

Jerome Kerviel, who is employed as a consultant in a consulting business systems and software where he worked between 2008 and 2010, has the right to break 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and complete freedom of movement weekends and holidays.

It will thus “get on a very normal life” according to his lawyer, David Koubbi, which ensures that the client will devote part of his free time “citizen commitments.”

The former trader serving time since mid-May and had already happened at the beginning of the investigation 41 days in custody.

Under strap until June 2015

It will be required to maintain its electronic bracelet until June 26, 2015, when it will benefit if there were no incidents, a measure of parole, according to a judicial source.

The defense of the former trader had supported his application for development to the fact that after deducting his detention and discounts automatic penalties provided by law, he could seek in July 2015, half of his sentence on parole. Yet the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that a management measure of punishment “can be performed one year before” mid-sentence.

The penalty enforcement judge had given the green light early August, but the prosecution had immediately appealed, which would suspend the decision. Finally, the Court of Appeal of Paris has confirmed Thursday.



A journey publicized in Italy

In his, the former trader judicial career, who had played in 2008 € 50 billion market in the name of his bank by hiding his positions, acknowledged some responsibility before appearing as the victim of a system, accusing the General Society of machination and justice of bias.

Supported by politicians, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, or clergymen, he led before his imprisonment a highly publicized trip to Italy after crossing the Pope Francis at a “hearing General “in Rome.

In March, the Court of Cassation, the highest French judicial body, confirmed his prison but set aside 4.9 billion in damages that Kerviel was sentenced, saying that the “negligence” of the bank had contributed to “fraud and its financial consequences.” This component will soon be retried in the Court of Appeal of Versailles.

In addition, a criminal investigation was opened in Paris on charges of fraud and false judgment and forgery in connection with complaints of Jerome accusing Kerviel Societe Generale have worsened after leaving the losses that have been charged.

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