The three men placed in police custody since Monday in a case of suspicion of coinage of information were referred this Thursday morning to the Paris court for a possible indictment.
These three men - two former police officers and a lobbyist - have just been heard for three days in the premises of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
And this within the framework of a preliminary investigation opened in July 2021 by the Paris prosecutor's office for "violation of professional secrecy, influence peddling, corruption, forgery and use of forgery, assistance with illegal entry and stay in band organization, misuse of the purpose of a data file, compromise of national defense secrecy and illegal taking of interests”.
Former member of the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI, the ancestor of the DGSI), Malik N. joined PSG in 2018 where he takes care of relations between the capital club and its supporters.
He recently ended his collaboration with the club.
While investigating another case in which he is involved, the police officers of the DGSI would have discovered that he was soliciting a former colleague to obtain confidential elements from police files, private information such as telephone numbers or addresses, information to screen employees or even facilitate the obtaining of residence permits.
PSG would have obtained thanks to the network of Malik N. information on ongoing legal proceedings involving its players, including that of the famous slap inflicted by Neymar on a spectator.
The second in custody is a police officer on standby who worked in the direction of international security cooperation of the national police.
He would be accused in particular of an intervention to obtain a residence permit for the benefit of an investor from the Middle East, charges which he disputes.
Asked, his lawyer Me Eric Morain did not wish to speak.
The third accused, Tayeb B., is a lobbyist from Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) who had his entries in the Middle East and Africa.
Contacted, his lawyer Me Nabil Fadli did not wish to react.
The name of the lobbyist also appears in another potentially explosive affair revealed by Liberation.
According to the daily, Tayeb B. had worked since 2019 as a consultant for the Qatari national human rights committee.
An experience that was abruptly interrupted in January 2020 when, he denounced, he was imprisoned in Qatar without being told the charges against him.
The emirate would accuse him of having wanted to blackmail Nasser al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG, on whom he would have private information.
Detained in appalling conditions - he denounces sleep deprivation, death threats and mock beatings - Tayeb B. was not authorized to return to France until November 1, 2020. An enlargement which would not have been returned possible only thanks to the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between two tenors of the Parisian bar, providing for the delivery of all its digital media and the promise of its silence.
Still according to Liberation, Tayeb B. and his wife filed two complaints against X with a civil action with the Paris court last August for
"extortion committed in an organized gang, witness tampering",
as well as
"torture, arrest and kidnapping , and death threats with an obligation to fulfill a condition”.
According to one of his relatives, the Quai d'Orsay and the UN have also been made aware of the treatment he denounces in Qatar.
