2023-10-19 13:04:07
New searches around the organization of the Olympic Games. According to information from Agence France Presse, citing a source close to the matter, the organizing committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and event agencies responsible for the opening ceremonies in the summer of 2024 were raided on Wednesday in as part of a new investigation carried out by the national financial prosecutor’s office, AFP learned Thursday from sources close to the matter.
According to these sources, Cojo and the companies Double 2, Ubibene, Obo and Paname 24 received a visit from financial investigators from Oclciff on Wednesday, as part of a preliminary investigation for illegal taking of interest, favoritism and concealment concerning several markets linked to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, opened this summer by the PNF.
“Paris 2024 is fully collaborating with the investigation as it has always done”
Information confirmed by Paris 2024 in a press release that we were able to consult this Thursday. The organization “confirms that the PNF presented itself at its headquarters on Wednesday October 18, and obtained all the information it requested. Paris 2024 is fully collaborating with the investigation as it has always done.”
Already, at the end of last June, searches had taken place at the headquarters of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, and at the headquarters of Solideo, in Paris, the company delivering the works Olympics, according to our information. Investigators commissioned by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) were looking for information on public contract awards.
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