Former county council leader David Parsons is to be billed for 29 occasions when he misused a taxpayer-funded chauffeur-driven car.
A new report, by investigators at County Hall, says 94 journeys made in the civic limousine by Mr Parsons, during his nine years in charge of the Tory-run council, were probed after a complaint made by fellow councillor Bill Boulter.
The report concludes that 27 times "the journeys were not sufficiently connected with his role as a county councillor or as leader of the council".
It adds: "In the other two, the purpose of the journey was acceptable, but the use of the car and waiting time of the driver was not, given the short distance involved."
The matter is to be discussed by members of the council's corporate governance committee next week. They are expected to authorise a move to calculate what the 29 trips would have cost and recover the cash.
The report does not list the 29 journeys, but the corporate governance committee has previously discussed Mr Parsons' use of the authority's car to attend his son's wedding.
Other journeys also previously discussed, included a trip to do a radio interview and a visit to a Conservative club, both in London.
The report says Mr Parsons disagreed with the investigators' findings when he was shown them. He was unavailable for comment yesterday.
The committee is also set to agree no further action will be taken against Mr Parsons, as he is no longer a county councillor. He did not seek re-election. He had resigned as Leicestershire County Council leader in July after he was censured by the council's standards committee over travel expenses he claimed, but then failed to promptly reimburse to the authority. He subsequently quit County Hall's Tory group.
It has also emerged that Mr Parsons has begun to pay back some of the outstanding expenses. In October, he was invoiced by the council for £4,089 – the cost of chauffeuring him to and from airports for European trips he made as council leader.
He disputed the sum but papers published yesterday show his lawyers and council solicitors agree he should refund £3,100 – payable in installments. So far, he has reimbursed £1,600.
A council spokesman said: "We have reached agreement to recover 75 per cent of the outstanding amount, which we agreed to after bearing in mind the possible costs of recovery through the courts."
Liberal Democrat councillor Bill Boulter, who made the complaint against Mr Parsons, said he is pleased he is paying back the money he owes so far.
Coun Boulter said he was disappointed Mr Parsons would not face a full-blown standards investigation at County Hall but said he accepted little could be done to discipline someone who was no longer a member at County Hall.
Coun David Snartt, chairman of the corporate governance committee, said: "We should clearly pursue any money he (David Parsons) still owes but we should also try to draw a line under this now – especially as he is no longer a county councillor.''
