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Marseille chiefs stay in custody
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THE president of French league leader Olympique Marseille was still in custody yesterday on suspicion of transfer fraud as investigators stepped up a parallel inquiry into match-fixing involving other clubs.
Fifteen serving and past Marseille officials, including president Vincent Labrune and two of his predecessors, were detained in raids on Tuesday. Football agents are also among those seized.
Police are looking into transfers made in recent years, including that of key striker Andre-Pierre Gignac from Toulouse in 2010. Suspicions of extortion, money-laundering, fraud and conspiracy with underworld gangs are being investigated, police sources said.
The sources said gangland figures were suspected of receiving commission from several major transfers, including that of French World Cup player Gignac and Senegalese international Souleymane Diawara. Diawara joined in 2009 from Bordeaux and left this year for Nice.
No player has been implicated in the inquiry. But documents on the Gignac deal were among papers seized in raids on Marseille’s headquarters in recent weeks.
Second division side Nimes is at the center of a separate inquiry into the fixing of games last season.
Police are investigating whether Nimes owner, Serge Kasparian, approached other teams to fix results so that his side was not relegated to the third division.
Police have detained the president of Caen, Jean-Francois-Fortin, whose team played Nimes on May 13. The 1-1 result meant that Nimes stayed in the second division and helped Caen to promotion to Ligue 1.
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