Claude Atcher, the director general of the Public Interest Group (GIP) France 2023, founded in April 2018 by the FFR, the CNOSF and the State, has, according to information from the daily L’Équipe, received a summons to appear from the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office. The hearing should take place next fall, between September 7 and 22.
The boss of the World Cup which will start at the Stade de France in fifteen months is referred to the Paris Criminal Court for “concealment of breach of trust committed by Bernard Laporte to the detriment of the FFR”. But also “abuse of corporate assets in the management of the company Score XV (company co-managed by Messrs. Atcher and Rover which was recruited and paid by the FFR just after the election of Bernard Laporte at the head of the institution in 2016) for the exclusive benefit of Claude Atcher”. As well as for “concealed work by concealment of activity (lack of tax and social declarations since 2016)”.
Atcher, 66, joins Bernard Laporte, president of the FFR, Serge Simon, vice-president of the FFR, and Mohed Altrad, main sponsor of the French Federation and president of the Montpellier club, returned, last March, before this same court by the vice-prosecutor of the PNF François-Xavier Dulin.
Partner of Atcher within the company Score XV, then integrated into the Holding Sport 8, Benoît Rover will have to answer for the same counts before the Criminal Court of Paris.