French police raided the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee Tuesday morning local time as part of two “preliminary investigations” into misuse of public funds.
The office of France’s National Financial Prosecutor said in a statement that searches were underway at multiple sites, including the committee’s main office in Saint-Denis, a northern Paris suburb, and the headquarters of Solideo, the public body responsible for the construction of Paris’s Olympic venues.
The “investigation should be allowed to run its course,” the Paris 2024 committee said in a statement confirming its headquarters had been searched.International Olympic Committee officials “have been informed by Paris 2024, that they are cooperating fully with the authorities in this matter,” according to a statement from the IOC.
The raid comes less than a month after Brigitte Henriques, the former president of France’s National Olympic Committee, which organizes the French Olympic team, announced her sudden resignation and asked for an internal audit following public tensions with other committee leaders.
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