The independent journalist makes the story, in ten new chapters, of the “play of these shadow players who can act to prevent information on a group listed on the stock market to the general public”.
by Béatrice Jérôme
Who tried to bury the gravediggers? In a new edition of his investigation on Orpea, which is released in bookstores on Wednesday January 25, Victor Castanet recounts “the vipers’ nest” in which he “set foot” by investigating for three years on the first European group of Commercial retirement homes: espionage, attempt to interception of information, counter-fire of communicators … The independent journalist tells the story of his dive in hostile environments through nineteen chapters unpublished on the occasion of the reissue of the work in format Pocket (I read, 512 pages, 9.50 euros).
His initial investigation caused an electroshock. Released at Fayard – nearly 170,000 copies sold – it tells cases of mistreatment and food rationing towards the elderly in Orpea establishments, linked, according to Victor Castanet, to practices of cost optimization and misappropriation of money audience. The “orpea system” as it defined is today in the hands of the judges and the political shock wave is not over.
“I wanted in this new edition to tell the game of these shadow players who can act to prevent information on a group on the stock market to come to the general public, explains Victor Castanet. In the case of Orpea, this did not work. But you have to be particularly vigilant in the face of processes at work in this type of investigation. “
Orpea nest of spies: It is the first revelation of the book that appears this Wednesday. “It is not one but at least two economic intelligence companies that would have been commissioned to contain the impact of my investigation,” writes Victor Castanet. “One of the missions, carried out by one of the French market leaders, was commanded by the general management of Orpea just a few weeks after sending my questions to the group in July 2021,” he said in his work. Fifty-six questions to which Orpea never answered.
These fellow expert officers have at least sufficiently informed the group’s managers about Victor Castanet’s work to erase certain files or traces in computers. And prepare their defense.
failure of the “denial” strategy
The journalist tells how he obtains the proof that detectives are after him. A man who presents himself as a “journalist”, tried to recover the book from the Fayard press secretary, ten days before his release, on the pretext of chronicling him. Victor Castanet finds his trace several months later. It is then that the man “completely lets go of the song”, and explains to the journalist: “It is a society of economic intelligence which contacted me. I work punctually with several boxes of economic intelligence or agencies of Public relations. There is a plethora of choice. “Since then, continues Mr. Castanet, the website that this pseudo-journalist has been led by this pseudo-journal for its links with the Communication Agency Idiret Partners at the request of which it would have disseminated Articles in favor of customers or to denigrate competitors “.
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