According to a journalist of the satirical weekly, the companion of one of the historic designers of the newspaper would have benefited from a fictitious job for about twenty years.
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Did the Duck chained remunerate the wife of one of his former designers without this one provider of actual work? This is what the investigators of the F2 section of the Paris prosecutor’s office are looking to determine (economic, financial and commercial affairs) who have undertaken, this summer, to audition employees of 173, rue Saint-Honoré, headquarters of ‘satirical weekly.
A complaint against X was filed on May 10 for the abuse of corporate goods and concealment of abuse of corporate goods by Christophe Nobili, journalist on the duck for fifteen years. According to our information, the editor would have reason to think that the partner of one of the newspaper’s historical designers, who was a long time administrator, would have benefited from a fictitious job for about twenty years.
“The complaint is not targeting the newspaper, but a system that has been put in place by two or three people, and on which others may have closed their eyes,” explains the lawyer for Christophe Nobili, Pierre-Olivier Lambert, assisted by Maître Maria Cornaz Bassoli. Questioned, during the winter of 2021, by Christophe Nobili, the deputy director general and director of publication, Nicolas Brimo, would not have provided satisfactory response to the journalist, which led him to initiate procedure In its own name, details M e Pierre-Olivier Lambert. If the facts were to be established, it would be around 3 million euros which would have been unduly paid to the beneficiary at least until 2020, the date on which she would have access to retirement, said the lawyer. The company not paying dividends to its shareholders, the damage, if it existed, would be essentially moral.
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Contacted by Le Monde, Nicolas Brimo answers: “I was neither summoned nor heard about a complaint of which I know neither the date nor the object.” To all useful purposes, he also recalls that “a preliminary investigation can end overnight”, for lack of reasons to suspect criminal facts. Because even if they are not appointed, it is indeed Michel Gaillard, president of the SAS Les Editions Maréchal-Le Canard Enchaîné, and Nicolas Brimo that the complaint aims in the first chief. The first, 78, is a member of the board of directors (CA) since 1976; He was appointed director in 1992, before accessing the presidency in 2017. It was on the same date that the second, 71 years old, managing director since 1991, became publication director.
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