Jean-Baptiste Rivoire was interviewed at Sud Radio, on Wednesday April 6, 2022, by André Bercoff. It reports the facts of the “RothschildGate”, involving Emmanuel Macron, the current President of the Republic, also a candidate for the second round of presidential elections.
Editor-in-chief of Off Investigation, Jean-Baptiste Rivoire has participated in a number of reports, including one on the Algerian civil war in the 1980s. In the eighth episode of his channel, “Macron’s heritage, where have the millions gone?”alongside the journalist Gauthier Mesnier, he recounts the cases that involved the Head of State during his career at Rothschild, passing through the Attali commission, and his time at the Ministry of Finance.
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A graduate of the National School of Administration (ENA) in 2004, Emmanuel Macron then became a finance inspector. In 2008, he continued his career at investment bank Rotschild & Cie, where he worked for four years.
For the period 2006-2009, he was a member of the Socialist Party. During these years, he joined the Attali commission “for the liberation of French growth” in the Senate, as deputy rapporteur.
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He was then presented to François Hollande, who later appointed him Deputy Secretary General of the Élysée. In 2016, he positioned himself hostile to the left-right divide, and founded his own political party: En Marche. Then the rest is known: he presents himself as a candidate for the presidential election of 2017, and then becomes President of the Republic.
The Macron spouses and real estate
On December 9, 2021, Emmanuel Macron had to declare his financial situation. Published in the Official Journal, this declaration is accessible to all. Despite rather well-stocked current accounts, he does not declare any real estate.
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Although both are owners of a Parisian apartment, worth 890,000 euros, as well as Villa Monéjan, located in Le Touquet, estimated at 1,453,000 euros, the Macron spouses do not manage to pay the tax. on wealth between 2008 and 2014.
Thanks to an in-depth investigation, Jean-Baptiste Rivoire declares that the presidential couple had estimated their house in Le Touquet well below the real estate market, thus circumventing the wealth tax (ISF). In 2015, the couple said they revalued their property to pay the tax authorities “three years late”.
“When you owe money to the bank, you reduce your assets, by l’occurrence here of 350,000 euros”, says Jean-Baptiste Rivoire. However, the journalist recalls that Emmanuel Macron claimed that the money declared in the heritage “was to give to Brigitte, so that she could do some work in her house”.
Except that Brigitte Macron owns the house, just like her husband, “because the house is his own”, says the journalist. When he indicates having lent money to his wife, his mistake was not to declare to the tax authorities whether he made a donation or not. In the end, the Head of State should have registered that, indeed, he had a debt for Crédit Mutuel. Just as the president should have declared, to his credit, that his wife owed him so much money, too. “If we declare debts, we also declare debts“, emphasizes Jean-Baptiste Rivoire.
In 2017, he even said: “I did my work in Brigitte’s house and I paid my debts”.
Success as an investment banker at Rothschild & Co
Since the report of Off Investigation, “the banker of Nestlé”, alias Emmanuel Macron, is even more talked about, reviving a mystery yet “forgotten” by all.
While he claims to have earned around 3 million euros at Rothschild between 2008 and 2012, Emmanuel Macron declares having only 156,000 euros in assets in 2014.
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It is thanks to his negotiating skills, under Rothschild, that Emmanuel Macron succeeded in sealing this contract for the acquisition of the children’s branch of Nestlé, which was bought by the American giant Pfizer: he managed to convince Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the boss of Nestlé, recommending that he offer 500 million euros more than Danone. It was then that the current head of state concluded this market estimated at 9 billion euros.
The Off Investigation team reports that: “this ratio would give a commission for Rothschild&co of 45 to 135 million euros”. Jean-Baptiste Rivoire also repeats that experts, whom they questioned during the investigation, do not think that the head of state may have received only a few hundred thousand euros for this contract.
Asked about these contradictions in Jean-Jacques Bourdin’s program, Emmanuel Macron, during his campaign in 2017, says that the millions earned at Rothschild are linked to the work of his wife Brigitte, and the repayment of his debts. Fuzzy remarks, because in his declaration of assets, he affirmed “that it came from Crédit Mutuel”. Another point of interest, in 2015, the Head of State sold his Parisian apartment, thus allowing him to repay his debts.
“The mystery of the millions earned at Rotschild and where they went from is unsolved at this stage”says Jean-Baptiste Rivoire.
“Bonus” partially paid into tax havens
“Where did the three million euros go” perceived at Rothschild?
When he rose to Rothschild, he became a managing partner, thus earning more money. A few days before François Hollande’s election in 2012, he negotiated this famous deal Nestlé/Pfizer.
Jean-Baptiste Rivoire and his colleagues questioned the bank, Bercy, and the Élysée on the gains obtained at Rothschild. To date, they have received no response. Off Investigation journalists insist. They ask if Emmanuel Macron would have paid his winnings into “trusts” abroad. Trusts refer to structures that are relatively unknown to the public, allowing large fortunes to be concealed.
It was then that a witness, close to Emmanuel Macron, who worked at Rothschild, spoke at Off Investigation. This anonymous witness says: “the fees of the managing partners are sometimes paid to them in trusts abroad”. After the broadcast of his program, Jean-Baptiste Rivoire affirms that a second source confirms to him that certain salaries were paid in the Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man.
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These statements, although not written, “are not necessarily false”, says Jean-Baptiste Rivoire. He concludes on this lack of transparency on the part of the Élysée, of the president himself, by drawing a parallel with the Fillon affair: in 2017, the candidate of the Republicans had been eliminated in the first round of the presidential election for a succession of cases.
Today, Emmanuel Macron, qualified candidate for the second round of the presidential election, has he finished revealing his secrets about his heritage?
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