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The president of the French Rugby Federation, Bernard Laporte, businessman Mohed Altrad, owner of the Montpellier club, and three other people were placed in police custody in Paris on Tuesday morning, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office said ( PNF) to AFP.
In this preliminary investigation relating in particular to the suspicions of favoritism between MM.
Laporte and Altrad opened by the PNF in 2017, three other people were taken into custody Tuesday morning in the premises of the Economic Crime Repression Brigade (BRDE), confirmed the PNF.
They are Serge Simon, vice-president of the FFR, Nicolas Hourquet, responsible for international relations of the FFR and Claude Atcher, director general of the organizing committee for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, scheduled for France.
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A "media vendetta" for those close to the president of the FFR
Contacted by Le
Figaro
,
someone
close to Bernard Laporte deeply regrets what he describes as a "media vendetta".
“There has been nothing new on the file for two and a half years.
This media explosion is a stratagem, a manipulation, ten days before the election to the presidency of the FFR.
It is unfortunate that the legal system is thus slipping into sensationalism.
Bernard Laporte is condemned in the media while there is nothing new.
It's a shame."
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