Justice will investigate possible financial slippages when Claude Atcher headed the organizing committee for the next World Cup in France.
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The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) opened a preliminary investigation at the beginning of October into the management of the France 2023 public interest group (GIP) in the context of the Rugby World Cup, France Télévisions learned on Wednesday. November 9, confirming information from The Team. A search was in progress in different placesin particular at the headquarters of GIP France 2023, Wednesday noon.
The investigation, opened for heads of favouritism, influence peddling, corruption and any other related offence, is entrusted to the Paris research section, which is part of the gendarmerie. These investigations are the result of a joint report from the General Inspectorate of Finance and the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research, specifies the PNF to France Télévisions.
The opening of the PNF investigation comes a month after the dismissal of Claude Atcher from the general management of the organization of the competition. He was singled out by a first salvo of revelations from the newspaper The Teamon June 22, on working conditions and the atmosphere within the World Cup organizing committee.