A week before its official departure, the Nanterre registry recorded its name as director general of a structure backed by Lagardère Participations.
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“My mission within the Lagardère group is accomplished!” On June 30, it is with the feeling of having paid the task that Arnaud Lagardère had entrusted to him earlier that Ramzi Khiroun left his duties . Since “the friendly entry of Vivendi and his OPA in progress”, justified Arnaud Lagardère in the press release announcing the news, the company “found the path of shareholder appeasement”. His “special advisor” and spokesperson for the group that bears his name, whose departure he regretted, could therefore leave the nest with a peaceful mind, it was understood in a watermark.
The parts separated on good terms. Very good, even, if we judge by the amount of the starting check. “A transaction was concluded for the departure of a member of the Executive Committee [COMEX] employed by Lagardère Management, announced on June 30, 2022, for which a provision covering its end of contract allowances in the amount of 17 million ‘Euros charges included has been recorded, “said an annexed document in the group’s semi -annual accounts, presented on July 26. A single member of the Comex left the body that day, and it is Mr. Khiroun.
man of influence
“The Board of Directors probably did not wish that it could spread in the public square about the group’s affairs”, judges a source aware of the mysteries of the house. But was this man in the shadows really distant? Since June 24, in fact, the multimillionaire officially holds the position of director general of LP12, a subsidiary of the Lagardère investment fund participations chaired by Pauline Hauwel, the secretary general of the Lagardère group.
With Ramzi Khiroun, they are the only two members of this structure (without remuneration, but with reimbursement of expenses), without known activity since the deposit of its statutes, at the end of 2021. Is it intended to host the Europe 1 stations , Europe 2 (ex-Virgin Radio) and RFM, which Arnaud Lagardère planned to bring together in a company by commanditis as part of the unobtival of its group by Vivendi? Contacted, neither Mr. Khiroun nor the Lagardère press service followed up on our messages.
m. Khiroun told us, in an SMS, to prepare “response rights” for a series of articles by Marianne about him, one of which revealed the existence of this company. So far, this man of influence had not had to comment on the work of his author Vanessa Ratignier: the book she devoted to her person has never been published. Its publisher Robert Laffont gave it up after the takeover of Editis (the parent company), at the end of 2018, by Vivendi.