Telnic Vice Chairman Fabien Chalandon indicted and jailed

02.07.2010 / leparisien.fr


Quote Fabien Chaladon: ".tel is the biggest innovation in the Internet since the launch of .com."


Fabien Chalandon, son of former Justice Minister Albin Chalandon, was indicted Thursday for violating the law on gambling and incarcerated. Technical Consultant Company Visionex, suspected of making internet terminals allowing illegal paris, man aged 57 was arrested and taken into custody late Tuesday morning in Paris at the premises of the Brigade of repression banditry (BRB).

Paid up to € 10,000 per month for a year and a half Visionex society in exchange for his advice, Fabien Chalandon is suspected of having intervened with Michèle Alliot-Marie, when the latter was Minister of the Interior, to promote the installation of Internet terminals.

During his hearing, Fabien Chalandon reportedly said "being deceived" about the use of these machines by Sigoignet Olivier, the manager of this company based in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). He acknowledged that the terminals of actually housed illegal gambling. Machines on which players can "lose" fat.

In an interview with Le Parisien, Aujourd'hui en France, son of former Minister of Justice had held that "Olivier Sigoignet underwent grossly unfair", saying even "a conspiracy hatched by several police departments in the balance of PMU and French games (JDF).

INDICTED May 20 for "infringement on the law on games of chance," Olivier Sigoignet has since been remanded in custody.

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