President Ina taxi expense 40,000 euros in 10 months! – Point

The French radio and media landscape never stops being rocked by scandals. After the affair of Mathieu Gallet Office that investigations have brought back to its proper proportion, that is to say not much, after the resale for over EUR 85 million of the chain 23 number whose single asset is to hold a given frequency by the state, here are the taxis notes Agnès Saal, President of INA, for less than a year … The current CEO of the National Institute of Audiovisual (Ina) spent more than 40 000 taxi bills with the G7 company in ten months, assures Monday Le Figaro Eco . A revelation that was made after an anonymous letter sent to the directors of the National Audiovisual Institute on the eve of the Board held on April 23, the newspaper said. Agnès Saal succeeded Mathieu Gallet, CEO of Radio France in May 2014.

On the total amount (€ 40 915), a little over 7000 concerning the subscription and 32000, travel . According to the newspaper, Agnès Saal said it had already repaid some of the taxi expenses within its private travel. “As CEO Ina, I have a company car with driver available. But, as I can not get it to work 12-15 hours per day and weekends, I also have a subscription G7 taxis, because I do not have a driver’s license. This device had already existed before my arrival and I resumed, “has defended the CEO Ina appointed by Aurélie Filippetti.

“A blunder”

In addition, on the invoice, 6,700 euros are attributable to his son, to whom she had communicated reservation number, adds Le Figaro . “It’s a mistake, I recognize the responsibility and I immediately reimbursed those costs,” said Agnès Saal. A doubt remains, however, about 7800 euros taxi charged weekend, namely the responsibility of the business and private trips.

“It is not clear whether a taxi ride to an event in which I represent Ina is professional or personal,” she said, arguing that “professional use taxi during weekends is about one third or one quarter of the bill.” So she agreed to reimburse the two-thirds or three-quarters, says Le Figaro . For completeness, note that the seat of the Ina is located in Bry-sur-Marne in Val-de-Marne about fifteen kilometers from Paris. A distance probably painful for a servant who has spent his entire career in the capital. Agnès Saal was in turn fiscal adviser and deputy director of the cabinets of Catherine Trautmann Catherine Tasca and the Ministry of Culture and Executive Director of the National Library of France and the Pompidou Centre …