Kerviel enters the Revision Committee – Le Point

Jérôme Kerviel began a process to obtain the cancellation of his criminal conviction and a new trial being revised, based in particular on the recent testimony of police conducting the investigation which challenges the bank Societe Generale, said Monday AFP his counsel, Mr. David Koubbi.

Specifically, the former trader seized last week, the Commission instruction of the Court of revision and review of criminal convictions to challenge his criminal conviction to five years of imprisonment, of which three farm became final in March 2014.

“Thunderclap”

As part of the judicial investigation in June 2014 for “fraud judgment”, “fake” and “forgery”, following a complaint of Jerome Kerviel, the judge Roger Le Loire auditioned in early April, police who had led the investigation on the conditions for the loss of € 4.9 billion reported in January 2008 by Societe Generale. The investigator said he “felt, and the certainty that the hierarchy of Jerome Kerviel could not ignore the positions taken by it,” according to the elements of his testimony reported by the news website Mediapart. In support of that impression, Nathalie Le Roy, who no longer works in a police department, made particular reference to the testimony of a former employee of the bank.

Operating within the entity “operational risk”, he assured the interviewer that “the activity of Jerome Kerviel was known” and said he alerted his superiors via e-mail “with a skull to get their attention “. For me Koubbi, it is a “thunderbolt”.

New trial

In mid-March 2014, the Supreme Court issued the sentence final criminal, but broke the civilian component of the decision, which allocated 4.9 billion euros in damages to the bank.

A new civil trial be held from 20 to 22 January 2016 to establish the division of responsibilities in this loss. The only way to reopen the criminal aspect requires the Court to review and reconsideration, which recently replaced the Court of Revision. Since World War II, only ten convictions were quashed by the Court of Revision, imposed for all crimes. “The lawyers of the imagination,” shouted Jean Veil, Board of Societe Generale, the information on BFM TV channel. Ms. Le Roy “never opened in seven years this feeling. It comes out today like a rabbit from a hat,” Me Veil estimated, for whom the police “relies only on sensations” .