Another dark affair for the Angers football club.
According to
TF1
/
LCI
, Saïd Chabane was summoned on Tuesday morning to the premises of the Central Races and Games Service (SCCJ) of the Nanterre judicial police.
He was taken into custody there.
Chabane bought the Angevin club in 2011 and became its president, until his resignation announced on March 29.
He still remains the 99% majority shareholder.
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Still according to
TF1
/
LCI
, an investigation was opened by the Bobigny prosecutor's office (Seine-Saint-Denis).
for "
organized money laundering
" and "
illegal practice as a players' agent
".
Saïd Chabane, 58, had already been heard by the police on January 3 before being released.
Three players' agents, "
non-officially licensed
" as
LCI
specifies , were taken into custody last summer.
Sexual assault trial scheduled for June
The headquarters of the Angers club was searched twice, in June 2022 and then in January 2023. Transfers made by the SCO during the last mercatos would be in the sights of justice.
"
We present ourselves calmly to this police custody
," said Saïd Chabane's lawyer.
This is a dark new case for Chabane.
The Franco-Algerian entrepreneur was accused, in February 2020, of sexual assault by three women.
Since then, seven women have been identified as potential victims, all employees or ex-employees of the Angers club or the Cosnelle group (charcuterie products), of which Chabane is the CEO.
A trial is scheduled for June 2023. Angers are bottom of Ligue 1 and almost condemned to relegation.
