Former minister Agnes Firmin Le Bodo was sentenced on Monday before the judicial court of Le Havre to a fine of 8,000 euros, 4,000 of which was suspended, for illicit gifts received as a pharmacist, we learned on Thursday from the prosecutor of Le Havre.
The former Minister of Health in the government of Elisabeth Borne was sentenced following an appearance on prior admission of guilt, said prosecutor Bruno Dieudonne, confirming information from Mediapart.
The current MP for Seine-Maritime had been the subject of a judicial investigation for having received, as a pharmacist in Le Havre, gifts from Urgo laboratories from 2015 to 2020 worth 20,000 euros.
"There is no conflict of interest, no benefit in kind, no gift, there are commercial negotiations," assured Agnes Firmin Le Bodo at the end of December 2023, when the affair was revealed.
The gifts were offered by Urgo in exchange for the pharmacist waiving a commercial discount from the laboratory to the pharmacy: this prohibited practice concerned a large number of pharmacists and the laboratory was sentenced in January 2023 to a fine of 1.125 million euros – of which 625,000 euros was suspended – by the Dijon Criminal Court, after an investigation by the anti-fraud department.
According to professional sources, the DGCCRF was investigating all pharmacists who had accepted these gifts (watches, magnums of champagne, cast iron casserole dishes, weekend boxes, etc.).
The prosecutor of Le Havre, Bruno Dieudonne, specified that "this conviction is not final" and that "the parties can appeal within 10 days".
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