His name was cited in the “Pandora Papers”, according to which he would have benefited from opaque tax fixtures in the Tax Paradise of the British Virgin Islands.
Le Monde with AFP.
Guy Forget, at the end of the contract, “leaves his duties as director” of the tournaments of Roland Garros and Masters 1000 from Paris, announced, Tuesday, December 7, the French Tennis Federation (FFT). “His succession for the Grand Chelem Parisian will be announced in the coming days,” says the FFT, which took the opportunity to “warmly thank” Guy Forget, director of Roland-Garros since 2016 and the Rolex Paris Masters since 2012, ” For its investment and exemplarity, which contributed to the influence of these two major tournaments on the international scene “.
The former number one French, today aged 56, was Director of these two great tournaments, among the main circuit, since 2016 for the major on land and since 2012 for the Masters 1000 room. The reasons for his departure are not specified.
According to the daily life The team , Guy Forget presented on Tuesday morning its resignation to the President of the FFT, Gilles Moretton . Guy Forget’s name was cited in early October in the “Pandora Papers”, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, according to which he would have benefited from opaque tax fixtures in the Tax Paradise of the British Virgin Islands. The FFT Ethics Committee had seized this case and had laundered the former player on November 5, “in the absence of tax evasion or other established reprehensible behaviors”.
The ethics committee, however, requested the director of Roland-Garros of “to implement everything so that the possible achievement to his reputation (…) does not reflect on that of the tournaments he directs or on that of The FFT “in case of judicial suites related to the revelations of the press. “I’m glad to see that the ethics committee made this report,” said Forget on the margin of the Bercy tournament, refusing to say more.