2023-09-15 02:45:59
It’s a standout affair, less than a year before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has opened an investigation to verify accusations of favoritism against the deputy general director of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojo), Michaël Aloïsio, a judicial source indicated on Thursday, confirming information from the Team.
The PNF magistrates opened this investigation “last week”, according to this same source, and are carrying out the investigations themselves, without contacting an investigating service. They look at the elements reported in the complaint, filed at the end of August for favoritism and influence peddling, by Sébastien Chesbeuf, a former employee of Cojo with whom he is in conflict, now a consultant for the organization of events sportsmen.
Sébastien Chesbeuf denounces the conditions for awarding a public contract issued in 2023 by the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (Paca) region to constitute its pre-candidacy file for the 2030 Winter Olympics and accuses Michaël Aloïsio of having favored another agency founded by a current Paris-2024 executive.
“Slanderous accusations”
While he worked as a consultant with the sports marketing event company Keneo, Sébastien Chesbeuf ensures that Michaël Aloïsio intervened with the office of the president of the Paca region, Renaud Muselier, to dissuade her from working with them and favor the company RNK , a company co-founded at the end of 2020 by Édouard Donnelly. The latter left the company in November 2022 when he joined Cojo as executive director of operations, raising suspicions of conflicts of interest.
At the end of August, Michaël Aloïsio had “firmly refuted the slanderous accusations of Sébastien Chesbeuf, who has been in conflict with Paris-2024 since his dismissal” in 2020. According to him, “the exchanges with the Paca region are part of the sharing of ‘experience’ with a view to their future candidacy for 2030.
Two separate investigations into suspicions of favoritism, illegal taking of interests and misappropriation of public funds during the awarding of Olympic Games contracts are already underway at the PNF.
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