searches were carried out at the end of January at the homes of leaders and former leaders of the firm

Four searches were carried out at the end of January at the homes of leaders and former leaders of the consulting firm McKinsey as part of investigations into suspicions of illegal financing of Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 and 2022 campaigns, franceinfo learned on Friday February 15, from source close to the file, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien.

Two judicial inquiries were opened in October 2022 by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) for “favouritism”, “concealment of favouritism”, “non-compliant keeping of campaign accounts” and “minoration of accounting elements in a campaign account” , relating to the “conditions of intervention of consulting firms in the electoral campaigns” of the current President of the Republic in 2017 and 2022.

A case in the case

In December, it was the French headquarters of the consulting company and those of Emmanuel Macron’s party, Renaissance, and of the Renaissance financing association which had been searched by the investigators. It all started with a PNF investigation targeting the American consulting firm McKinsey, suspected of “aggravated laundering of tax evasion” after a Senate report, which showed that the company had not paid corporate taxes in France between 2011 and 2020.

It is in the context of this case that new elements have emerged and led the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office to open this judicial investigation concerning Emmanuel Macron’s electoral campaign.