PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is targeted by a second investigation for hidden work

Hicham Karmoussi, ex-butler of the PSG boss, filed a complaint in March against his ex-boss.

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Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, in Berlin, September 7, 2023. (GERALD MATZKA / DPA / AFP)

PSG boss Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is the target of a second investigation for concealed work after the complaint of his ex-Moroccan butler Hicham Karmoussi, AFP learned on Wednesday January 10 from the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the World. The public prosecutor attests that Hicham Karmoussi’s complaint was “entrusted for investigation to the 16th arrondissement police station”. “It concerns, in the words of the complainant, possible offenses of hidden work, and exploitation of vulnerable people”said the prosecution.

No one in the “NAK” entourage could immediately be reached on Wednesday evening, adds AFP. The ex-butler’s lawyer, Antoine Ory, told AFP that he had filed a civil suit and was awaiting the upcoming appointment of an investigating judge. In his March complaint, this 48-year-old former professional tennis player claimed to have started assisting “NAK” in the mid-2000s, then working for him. “full time” from 2011, the year his boss arrived at the head of PSG. All without an employment contract and while living at home.

His working and living conditions at the home of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi “degrade” from 2015, he said. Hicham Karmoussi also ensures that he has “guard” in 2017, at the request of his boss, several confidential documents, including “a USB key containing many concluded contracts” with Jérôme Valcke, the former secretary general of Fifa, in order to prevent them from being found during a search.


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