At the end of an ethical investigation, the Council of the Association of Lawyers decided not to open a disciplinary investigation concerning the alleged role of several lawyers in the Liberation, in 2020, of the lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane, selected at Qatar against the delivery of documents relating to the president of PSG.
by Rémi Dupré
La Bâtonnière de Paris, Julie Couturier, has decided: no disciplinary prosecution is open against several Parisian lawyers targeted since January by an ethical investigation of the Council of the Order after a complaint from the Franco-Algerian lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane, in September 2021.
According to information from the Team, confirmed by MO12345lemonde, M e
é> couturier followed the investigators of the Council of the Order, who not noted any deontological fault. As Liberation revealed, Tayeb Benabderrahmane says he was arrested and then detained between January 13 and the 1 er July 2020 in Qatar before being under house arrest until his return to France, The 1 er November 2020.
The latter criticizes those he presents as his lawyers, Olivier Pardo and Benjamin Mathieu, for having made him sign at a distance, on July 10, 2020, a transactional protocol of agreement “largely unbalanced”, “received on ‘Signal application “that day, in which he undertook to hand over,” in exchange for [s] a liberation “, of the allegedly compromising documents concerning Nasser al-Khelaïfi, president of the Paris-Saint-Germain, boss of the BEIN MEDIA Group group and minister without portfolio in Qatar. A penalty of 5 million euros was planned if Mr. Benadberrahmane and his relatives broke the silence.
Dati accused of being “intermediary”
Contested by Mr. Benabderrahmane before French justice, this transactional protocol has “blackmail”, according to investigators from the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) and the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN ), responsible for a preliminary investigation targeting the lobbyist and an ex-police officer from the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI, ex-DGSI) who has become supporters at PSG (2018-2022), Malik Nait-Liman.
Before the Council of the Order, Mr. Benabderrahmane also charged M es Francis Szpiner – Mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of the XVI e district of Paris – and His partner Renaud SEMERDJIAN, whom he accused of “being accomplices of the criminal actions of their Qatari customers”, including Mr. al-Khelaïfi.
The main target of the lobbyist was Rachida Dati, the mayor LR of VII e and lawyer at the Paris bar since 2010. SMS in support, the lobbyist accused the former Minister of the Justice, then “in direct line with the Attorney General of Qatar”, to have been “the intermediary between the two parties”, “at the center of the discussions, the device”, “Pardo being a showcase”.
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