The national financial prosecution confirmed Thursday the opening of two judicial information for “non -compliant account of accounts” and “favoritism and concealment of favoritism” during the two campaigns of the president.
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Emmanuel Macron judged “normal” on Friday, November 25, that justice does his job in the McKinsey case, named after an American consulting firm, which is now expanding in its 2017 and 2022 electoral campaigns and 2022 .
“I do not fear anything and (…) I believe that the heart of the investigation is not your servant,” said the president, during a trip to Dijon.
“I learned like you by the press that there were associations and elected officials who had decided to seize justice. It is normal for justice to do its job, it does it freely, it will do Precisely the light on this subject. “
The National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) confirmed Thursday the opening of two judicial information in October for “non -compliant hold of campaign accounts” and “favoritism and concealment of favoritism” during the two victorious electoral campaigns of Emmanuel Macron , in 2017 and 2022, as part of the so -called “McKinsey” procedure. The Presidency of the Republic said Thursday that it was up to justice to conduct these “independent” investigations.
In February 2021, “M Le Magazine du Monde” had revealed in an investigation the power of this consulting firm in the shadow of many Macronie decisions, from the creation of En Marche to the vaccine strategy Against the COVID-19. This survey revealed in particular the volunteer participation of several McKinsey executives in the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron in 2016-2017, starting with Karim Tadjeddine, boss of the “Public sector” of the American firm.
In February 2022, a Senate inquiry commission then wondered on a mission entrusted by Emmanuel Macron to McKinsey after his election: the organization of the Tech for Good, who saw the bosses of the bosses of the digital at the Elysée. If the firm intervened free of charge on this project, he then used it as a commercial argument in his application file for a great public tender on the advice missions, which he won.
The senatorial report also revealed that the French branch of McKinsey has not paid any tax in France for ten years thanks to an advantageous tax assembly.