2023-08-02 18:21:13
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
Altice, parent company of SFR, has suspended a leader in France. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
Implicated in listening to Portuguese justice, the executive director of content, acquisitions and partnerships of the parent company of SFR has been suspended.
Altice, parent company of SFR, has suspended a leader in France as part of the internal investigation into the corruption scandal that led to the indictment of the co-founder of the telecommunications group in Portugal, AFP learned on Wednesday from sources. unions. During a social and economic committee, Arthur Dreyfuss, CEO of Altice France, reported having suspended Tatiana Agova-Bregou, the group’s executive director of content, acquisitions and partnerships, implicated in listening to Portuguese justice, explained these sources.
“Witch hunt”
According to Portuguese media, she would have benefited from luxury gifts and a property in the Paris region from Armando Pereira, the businessman at the heart of the scandal which led the investigators to carry out a series of searches, in particular at the headquarters of Altice in Lisbon. He co-founded Altice with the French billionaire Patrick Drahi and was still for a year the adviser to the CEO and the executive committee of Altice France. He is notably accused of having set up a network of dubious suppliers, at the center of the group’s purchasing policy, and through which he would have taken several million euros.
Since July 13 and the revelation of a search at the headquarters of Altice Portugal, the case has splashed the entire group, which has suspended several leaders including the chairman of the board of directors and the purchasing manager of Altice USA. Other measures might be taken in France, “in the next few days or weeks”declared Arthur Dreyfuss during the CSE, without it being, according to him, a “witch hunt”.
Pursued with four other people and under house arrest, Armando Pereira is suspected in this case of 11 corruption and money laundering offenses. He refuted, through his lawyer, the suspicions hanging over him. Patrick Drahi, for his part, plans to speak on August 7 and 8, on the occasion of the half-yearly results of Altice France and Altice International.
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