Izuchukwu Okosi
Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Thursday revealed that their headquarters in Paris had been raided 24 hours earlier by the country’s national financial prosecutor, Parquet national financiers.
Parquet national financiers is the French equivalent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Nigeria.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThe PNF, according to a source close to the organisers, are said to be investigating an alleged favoritism which also involves event management firms
“Paris 2024 confirms that the PNF (Parquet national financier) visited its headquarters on Wednesday Oct. 18 and obtained all the information it requested,” the organisers said in a statement.
“Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigation, as it has always done.”
A judicial source said the raids were part of a probe opened into suspicion of “illegal taking of interest, favoritism and concealment” in the award of several contracts ahead of the 2024 Olympics.
Anti crime agencies raiding the offices of sporting federations ade becoming a common theme with several high profile corruption charges under probe.
Several qualifying games are ongoing across the world ahead of the Olympic games in selected sports.
The 2024 Games will hold between 26 July and 11 August 2024.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
