One of France’s richest men – conservative senator, industrialist and newspaper proprietor Serge Dassault – paid huge bribes to influence a 2010 mayoral election, investigative news site Mediapartsaid on Sunday as it published secretly-taped recordings for the first time.
The allegations date back to December 2012, when satirical and investigative weekly Le Canard Enchainé accused Dassault, who was mayor of the surburb Corbeil-Essonnes in southern Paris from 1995 to 2009, of paying hundreds of thousands of euros in bribes to ensure the electoral victory of his successor Jean-Pierre Bechter.
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