French national financial prosecutor’s office ordered search of organising committee’s base, according to source
Police have searched the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee, as well as its major infrastructure partner, as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favouritism.
The national financial prosecutor’s office said the Paris 2024 headquarters in Saint-Denis, a suburb to the north of Paris, were raided on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation launched in 2017 into contracts made by the summer Games’s organising committee.
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