In addition, they also searched the headquarters of the McKinsey consultancy, which worked on its 2017 presidential campaign, to try to determine if Renaissance had illegal funding.
The Gendarmerie has the headquarters of Renacimiento, the party of Emmanuel Macronand the advisor McKinseywithin the process investigating possible illegal financing of the 2017 election campaign.
They are enrolled in two different studies that formally started in October. Investigators are trying to find out whether Macron’s campaign in the 2017 presidential election, in which he was first elected president, was illegally funded by the multinational.
“It is normal for the judiciary to conduct free and independent investigations to shed all the light on this matter,” said Renacimiento, who made himself “available” to the investigators.
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the gendarmes took documents and computer carriers.
During Macron’s first term, McKinsey benefited from numerous public contracts. A parliamentary committee concluded that since 2018, the government had doubled the use of private consultants for multiple jobs in the state administration to reach €894 million by 2021.
For McKinsey, this is the second record in just over six months, following a record set last May for serious money laundering cases for tax fraud.
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