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Laporte-Altrad: the specter of prison for French rugby bosses

2022-09-21T17:51:32.235Z


Suspected of corruption, the two men risk imprisonment. Heavy requisitions for exemplary sanctions. After five years of investigation and eight days of trial, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) requested three years in prison, including one firm against Bernard Laporte, the president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), and the head of company and president of the Montpellier club, Mohed Altrad, suspected of having made "a corruption pac


Heavy requisitions for exemplary sanctions.

After five years of investigation and eight days of trial, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) requested three years in prison, including one firm against Bernard Laporte, the president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), and the head of company and president of the Montpellier club, Mohed Altrad, suspected of having made

"a corruption pact"

in 2017. During their indictment, prosecutors Céline Guillet and François-Xavier Dulin extensively detailed, for nearly three hours, the facts of which the two men are accused (concealment of breach of trust, concealed work, abuse of corporate assets ), but also to Serge Simon (former vice-president of the FFR), Claude Atcher (former CEO of the 2023 World Cup) and Benoît Rover (manager with Atcher of the company Score XV).

“Our role has been caricatured, we would only be there to trap.

Our concern is the manifestation of the truth, but not to trap people who have made the choice to...

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Source: lefigaro

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