Criminal law in public life
The drive to moralize public and business affairs leads to increasing prosecution of public figures for offenses against integrity.
Once limited to serious cases of corruption involving the pursuit of personal enrichment, criminal prosecutions can now also involve purely theoretical conflict of interest situations, or conduct lacking fraudulent intent.
Local elected officials are particularly exposed to this criminal risk.
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Current events regularly provide examples of criminal investigations targeting elected officials and civil servants serving the public interest:
