Gone are the tumultuous years, when the national financial prosecutor's office was fond of legal happenings and shone under the media spotlights each time a preliminary investigation was opened for a political-financial scandal.
The time, too, when the institution allowed affairs to be serialized in real time, with sometimes sibylline press releases.
The fadette scandal, which splashed the first French specialized prosecution in the summer of 2020, marked the return to discretion and a logic of efficiency.
Since its creation, in 2014, the national prosecutor's office has garnered, for the benefit of the state coffers, 10.170 billion euros (figure stopped on December 1, 2021).
These amounts include the recovery of tax evasion, the fines imposed and the 3,
588 billion collected thanks to the twelve legal agreements of public interest signed since its creation.
Among them, those negotiated with the American fast-food giant McDonald's for 508.48 million euros in May 2022...
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