Top French Central Banker Steps Down After Being Ensnared In Corruption Probe
9th December 2022
Christine Lagarde is no longer the only (alleged) criminal in charge of a money-printing operation: on Friday, French prosecutors said they had opened a corruption investigation into top central banker Sylvie Goulard, who simultaneously stepped down from the Bank of France.
The probe covers suspicions of accepting bribes, influence peddling, illegal conflicts of interest and breach of trust, the national financial prosecutor’s office said, confirming a report from daily Liberation. Graft-fighting group Anticor triggered the probe by filing a criminal report in June, with the investigation launched in September.
Centralizing power makes corruption more profitable.
So what’s next for the corruption-tainted Goulard? Will she quietly ride off into the sunset of retirement? Why of course not – she will do what so many alleged criminals ends up doing: work for the government.
According to the Bank of France, Goulard Se wished to “return to the foreign ministry” where she started her civil service career.
Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.
As John Derbyshire likes to say: ‘Get a government job!’