A police officer stationed at Nice has been indicted and arrested Friday night for charges of corruption.
This official is suspected of having ” provided information to a network of narcotics traffickers “said prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme.
The man has admitted the facts in police custody, and relied on ” financial problems “.
In 1982, the custodian of the peace of the office of The Ariane, a sensitive area of the city, would have received “several thousand euros” in exchange for these services rendered. The events took place over a period of between 2018 and 2020, the official related, in some months, up to 1 500 €.
The police officer has been indicted for ” corruption, money laundering trafficking in drugs, complicity drug trafficking and criminal association “, has detailed the prosecutor.
This corruption case had been joined, in the framework of a requisition in addition, a first case of drug trafficking to which one of the dealers has also been placed in detention.
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