2023-12-16 06:13:10
The former communications director of Paris Saint-Germain has been indicted in Paris in the investigation into suspicions of leaks of confidential information for the benefit of the club, we learned on Friday from sources close to the matter , confirmed by the prosecution.
Jean-Martial Ribes, 57, was indicted in Paris on December 1, notably for corruption and active influence peddling, complicity and concealment of misappropriation of the purpose of processing personal data, usurpation of the identity of a third party with a view to disturbing their peace or damaging their honor and online moral harassment, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“Jean-Martial Ribes contests the facts with which he is accused and specifies that all the actions he carried out during his many years of presence within PSG were always done legally, whether in the context of promotion , development or defense of the club’s interests in France and abroad,” its lawyer, Me Romain Vanni, told AFP.
According to an investigation report of which AFP was aware, Mr. Ribes is notably suspected of having asked the PSG supporters’ referent and former member of intelligence, Malik Naït-Liman, to find confidential information on the supporter that Neymar had slapped in 2019, in order to discredit him.
Fake Twitter accounts
In exchange for places for matches, Malik Naït-Liman then requested a police contact to find his date of birth, his address, his criminal record. Information then disseminated by the Twitter account called “Paname Squad”. Mr. Naït-Liman and this police officer are also indicted.
In October 2022, Mediapart revealed that the club had commissioned a communications agency, Digital Big Brother (DBB), from 2018 to 2020, to create fake Twitter accounts (renamed X) to carry out hostile campaigns against targets of the club. the capital, which the latter contests.
The long story broke in September 2022, first relating to suspicions of transmission, particularly to PSG, of confidential information on certain people from police files.
Among those accused, the Franco-Algerian lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane, suspected of having for a time provided the club with confidential information obtained by police officers, and held compromising information for Qatar and for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the club’s boss. , which may have been used to carry out blackmail.
“NAK” has since announced a defamation complaint against him.
The lobbyist, who claims to have been arbitrarily detained in Qatar for six months in early 2020, for his part obtained the opening of a judicial investigation at the end of January for torture, kidnapping and sequestration.
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