Guy Forget is no longer the boss of Roland-Garros.
According to information from the Team, the former French n ° 1 presented Tuesday morning to Gilles Moretton, the president of the Federation, his resignation from the post of director of the tournaments of Roland-Garros and the Masters 1000 of Paris-Bercy.
At the Federation, Le Parisien is told that Forget's contract expired on December 31, 2021. His succession for Roland-Garros will be announced very quickly.
In early October, his name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) wide-ranging investigation.
The former French tennis player owned an offshore company for eleven years in a tax haven located in the British Virgin Islands.
“From my teenage years, and at the start of my professional career in the 1980s, until my period as captain of the national teams, the company, known worldwide, IMG, managed my interests and my contracts like those of many top athletes. in the greatest legality ”he defended himself at the microphone of France Inter.
The ethics committee of the FFT, which had seized the case of the director of Roland-Garros, had cleared it at the beginning of November, "in the absence of tax evasion or other established criminally reprehensible behavior".
The committee had however invited Forget, if legal follow-up were to be given to the part of the Pandora Papers concerning him, to do everything possible so that the possible damage to his reputation which would result does not reflect on that of the tournaments he directs or on that of the FFT.