The PNF had announced, at the end of November, the opening of two investigations on the intervention of consulting firms in the candidate’s electoral campaigns in 2017 and 2022.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The renaissance premises, the presidential party, and those of the consulting firm McKinsey were searched, Tuesday, December 13, according to information published by Le Parisien Wednesday and confirmed by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) with the France-Presse agency. Investigators act within the framework of two surveys on the intervention of consulting firms in the electoral campaigns of candidate Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and in 2022, open to the initiative of the PNF and entrusted to the investigating judges at the end of the month of November.
The first procedure concerns suspicions of “non -compliant outfit of campaign accounts and the reduction of accounting elements in a campaign account”. The second targets “leaders of favoritism and concealment of favoritism”. “It is normal that justice investigates freely and independently to shed light on this issue, commented the Renaissance party to the Parisian, before transmitting the same reaction to the world and confirming the holding of the search. We are Naturally at their disposal to communicate to them any useful element on the campaigns mentioned within the framework of their investigations. “
Justice became interested in McKinsey following the work carried out by the senatorial commission of inquiry on the role of consulting firms. State spending to request the services of these private organizations have more than doubled between 2018 and 2021, to exceed one billion euros, noted the report. He also revealed that the French branch of this company, which benefits from many government contracts, has not paid any tax in France for ten years thanks to an advantageous tax assembly.