The president of the federation, his vice-president, Serge Simon, the owner of the Montpellier club, Mohed Altrad, and the suspended boss of the 2023 World Cup in France, Claude Apcher, appear, from September 7 to 22, before the Paris Correctional Court for facts, among other things, of “corruption” and “influence traffic”.
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A year from the Rugby World Cup organized in France, from September 8 to October 28, 2023, the Children’s Ovalie staff is brought together in courts for two weeks of audience. From Wednesday, 7 to Thursday, September 22, five barons in the discipline are judged by the 32
At the end of four years of investigation, the National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) quoted to appear Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR) since December 2016, ex-successor of the XV of France ( 1999-2007) and former Secretary of State for Sports under the chairmanship of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2009), for “illegal taking of interests”, “traffic of passive influence by a public agent”, “passive corruption by a Public agent “,” concealment of abuse of corporate goods “,” breach of trust “and” abuse of corporate goods “.
President and owner of the Montpellier Hérault Rugby club since 2011 and sponsor jersey of the XV of France, the entrepreneur and billionaire Mohed Altrad, is returned for “active influence traffic”, “active corruption” and ” misuse of corporate assets “. Vice-president of the FFR and right-handed arm of Mr. Laporte since 2016, Serge Simon appears, for him, for “illegal taking of interests”.
In a separate file concerning his company SCORE XV, FFR provider, Claude ATCHER, Director General of the Public Interest Group (GIP) France 2023, in charge of the organization of the World Rugby in France, is tried for “Reception of breach of trust”, “abuse of corporate goods” and “work hidden by concealment of activity”. The manager is summoned to the bar while he was laid down as a conservatory of his post as director general of the GIP France 2023, at the end of August, by the Ministry of Sports until the end of a D ‘Administrative investigation carried out on his managerial practices.
Longtime partner of Claude Atcher and “law manager” of score XV, Benoît Rover is also quoted to appear by the PNF for “complicity in abuse of corporate goods.”
revelation of the private contract
At the origin of the Laporte-Altrad file, which will be at the heart of the trial, appears an image contract concluded for a period of one year, on February 19, 2017, for 180,000 euros (taxes) between BL Communication, Bernard Laporte company, and Altrad Investments Authority (AIA), Holding of the Altrad group. The said contract, the principle of which was ratified in the summer of 2016, before the election of Bernard Laporte at the head of the FFR, provides, among other things, the transfer of the latter’s right to the image and its participation in Four seminars or communication operations organized by Mr. Altrad.
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