Casino CEO Jean-Charles Naure was audited as part of an investigation into price manipulation

Casino CEO Jean-Charles Nauri was interviewed on Thursday 1^Eh In June, as part of an investigation in the Paris judicial police building “Organized price manipulation, active and passive private corruption” and “domestic trade”learned the world Confirmation of information Sunday newspaper and Agence France-Presse.

A preliminary investigation was launched in 2020 by the National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) and followed a report by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF). It refers to facts that date back to 2018 and 2019.

According to a source close to the matter, this investigation concerns the connections of Mr. Nauri and the casino group (Monoprix, Franprix, Cdiscount, etc.) with the head of the press, Nicolas Miges. contacted Mr. Nauri’s lawyer, B.^I Marie-Alix Canou-Bernard did not answer. When asked, Me Sébastien Schapira, who also represents him, could not immediately be reached.

significant debt

In May 2022, AMF investigators visited the group’s headquarters and also the home of Jean-Charles Naury.

Casino on Friday formally entered into a four-month reconciliation process to renegotiate its huge debt and announced its willingness to sell a hundred supermarkets and hypermarkets to the Intermarché group.

The casino, which employs more than 50,000 people in France and more than 200,000 worldwide under multiple brands, has struggled for years to get out of debt, so far without success.