#Anti-bribery & Corruption:
Anticor: Matignon refuses to re-examine accreditation, despite administrative court injunction
On Wednesday 28 August 2024, a new stage was reached in the renewal of the Anticor association’s accreditation. After losing its accreditation in June 2023, the association submitted a new application in January 2024. On 9 August 2024, the Paris Administrative Court ordered Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, to re-examine the application and provide a reasoned response within a two-week period, i.e. by 27 August 2024. Faced with the Government’s silence, Anticor filed two requêtes en référé before the Paris Administrative Court on Wednesday 28 August 2024, asking Gabriel Attal to re-examine the request for accreditation and to provide an explicit response as soon as the summary order is read, under penalty. > Read article
#Internal investigations:
Altice: an executive dismissed during corruption scandal sues the group
Following Armando Pereira’s arrest for alleged financial misconduct, an internal investigation was launched by SFR, a subsidiary of Patrick Drahi’s Altice Group, of which he was a long-standing associate. Altice France initially notified Tatiana Agova-Bregou, Director of Audiovisual Content at SFR, of an exemption from her duties and then revoked her social mandates, claiming “objective, proven interference with the smooth running of the company”, due to her alleged intimate relationship with Armando Pereira. In response, she sued SFR Presse Distribution and Sportscotv, contesting her “abusive dismissal, under brutal and humiliating circumstances that damaged her reputation and without respecting the principle of due process” and claiming 250.000 euros for damages. > Read article
#Ethics & Compliance:
Nicolas Best, former Director of Nîmes University Hospital, on trial for favoritism and passive corruption
From 26 August to 2 September 2024, Nicolas Best, former General Director of Annecy Hospital and then Nîmes Hospital, will be on trial before the Criminal Court of Paris for favoritism and passive corruption. The investigation began following a control by the Chambre Régionale des Comptes d’Auvergne Rhône-Alpes into a call for tenders won by Bouygues in 2016, when Best was head of the Annecy Hospital. On this occasion, he allegedly received 1,000 euros worth of meals and concert tickets. The PNF then took up the case and reportedly found irregularities in the awarding of work at Annecy Hospital worth around 47 million euros to Eiffage in 2018, as well as in the awarding of a contract worth 1 million euros to a subcontractor at Nîmes Hospital. In parallel, Bouygues Bâtiment Sud Est and Linkcity Sud Est entered into a DPA (CJIP) with the National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) in May 2023. > Read article
