A complicated month of January for Bernard Laporte. Indeed, this Tuesday, January 24, the president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), currently in withdrawal, was placed in police custody. The one who also officiated at Cyril Hanouna as a columnist on the show Balance Your Post was arrested as part of an investigation for laundering aggravated tax evasion according to the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF).
It was in August 2020 that the investigations were launched for this case before being entrusted to the Service d’Enquête Judiciaire des Finances (SEJF) according to a source of The Team. One of his lawyers, Mr.e Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, took the floor to clarify the purpose of his interpellation: “He was summoned for a hearing by tax police, he went there with a tax lawyer”he said before deploring: “It is perfectly scandalous that the prosecution chose the date of Patrick Buisson’s election to set that of the hearing and that the disclosure of this hearing was made the same day”.
Bernard Laporte and his troubles with the law
Indeed, since Monday and until Thursday, the French amateur clubs are called upon to decide on the subject of the candidacy of Patrick Buisson, to replace Bernard Laporte at the head of the Federation during his withdrawal, under pressure from the ministry. Sports and the Ethics Committee of the FFR.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the ex-coach of the XV of France is the subject of a new investigation. Indeed, this is a distance from the corruption case for which he was sentenced on December 13 to a suspended two-year prison sentence, as well as that of the PNF which targeted the organizing committee of the Rugby World Cup. , France 2023, for favouritism, influence peddling and corruption.
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