Paris CNN —French police raided the offices of the Paris 2024 organizing committee in France’s capital Tuesday morning, a committee spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
Paris 2024 spokersperson Jonathan Firpo told CNN that a “police search is currently underway at the headquarters of the Organising Committee.”“Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their investigations,” Firpo said.
According to an internal email sent to committee employees seen by CNN affiliate BFMTV, French financial police are leading the search.
“Several” sites were raided by police, including the Paris 2024 offices and the headquarters of SOLIDEO, the public body responsible for much of the construction and infrastructure around the Paris 2024 games, the financial prosecutor’s office said.
This followed an inspection by the French anti-corruption agency, the financial prosecutor’s office said.
Persons:
spokersperson Jonathan Firpo, ”, ” Firpo
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Paris CNN —, CNN, Paris, BFMTV, French, Financial Prosecutor’s, Paralympic Games
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Paris, France’s, SOLIDEO, French