Paris Olympics HQ searched amid corruption probe

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(20 Jun 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris - 20 June 2023
1. 00:08 Various exteriors of the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics

ARCHIVE: Saint-Denis - 7 June 2023

2. 00:22 Exteriors of Paris 2024 Headquarters

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ARCHIVE: Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris - 15 September 2017

3. 00:26 Various of plane on tarmac

4. 00:38 Various of Tony Estanguet and Anne Hidalgo stepping out of the plane and waving flags

5. 00:44 Various of Paris 2024 delegation stepping out of the plane, waving flags and celebrating on tarmac

6. 00:50 Electronic sign - "Welcome Paris 2024"

7. 00:53 Various of crowd on tarmac

8. 00:57 Wide of homecoming crowd and airport personnel on tarmac.

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STORYLINE:
French investigators are searching the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s office.

The Paris 2024 organising committee said in a statement that a search is under way at their headquarters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, and that "Paris 2024 is cooperating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations.”

It would not comment further.

Paris becomes the third straight Summer Games organiser implicated in investigations led by anti-corruption authorities in the French capital.

Vote-buying allegations linked to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Games previously removed several members of the International Olympic Committee from that organisation.

An official with the financial prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday the searches are linked to two preliminary investigations related to the Paris Olympics that had not previously been made public.

The official was not authorised to be publicly named according to prosecutor's office policy.

One of the probes was opened in 2017 — the year Paris was picked by the IOC as the 2024 host — into suspected embezzlement of public funds and favouritism, and concerns about an unspecified contract reached by Paris organisers, the prosecutor's office said.

The other was opened in 2022 following an audit by the French Anti-corruption Agency.

The prosecutor's office said that case targets suspected conflict of interest and favouritism involving several contracts reached by the organising committee and Solideo, the company in charge of Olympic facilities.

The Paris Olympics are scheduled for July 26-August 11, 2024.

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