The Anticor association has filed a complaint for influence peddling against Alexis Kohler

The association Anticor accuses the secretary general of the Presidency of the Republic, Alexis Kohler, of “mixture of genres”.

Anticor has filed a complaint for unlawful taking of interests and suspicion of trading in influence against the secretary general of the Presidency of the Republic, Alexis Kohler, a close Emmanuel Macron. The Paris public prosecutor must now decide whether he opens a preliminary inquiry or does not accept the complaint.

Right Lebras of Emmanuel Macron, the current general secretary of the Elysium is the target of a complaint for “illegal catch of interests” and “trading of favours” that fight association against Anticor corruption sent, Friday, June 1, with the financial national Parquet floor. In the middle of the file: close links between Mr. Kohler and ship-owner MSC, a private group italo-Switzerland with which the State carried out a series of negotiations these last years, whereas the high official occupied of the stations – keys to the ministry for the economy.

Association is based on the revelations of Mediapart. At the beginning of May, the site revealed information held carefully secret hitherto: Alexis Kohler is related to Lands, the Italian family founder and always owner of the company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

Alexis Kohler, a 44 years graduate of the ENA, does not have officially any more any function in the ship-owner, and the Elysium always ensured that the general secretary complied with all the legal rules, being off-set on any question being able to relate to MSC.

The mother of Alexis Kohler is the German cousin of Rafaela Aponte, who co-founded MSC with her Gianluigi husband in 1970. It is thus not a chance if Alexis Kohler, when it temporarily left the service of the State in August 2016, joined during a few months the seat of MSC in Geneva rather than another company. Appointed finance director of this Italian group of Swiss right, with the turnover exceeding the 20 billion euros, he worked in family.

World number two of goods transport by boats container ships, the company of the family Lands diversified in cruisings. For this reason, it became the principal customer – and certain years, single – the last large shipyards French, located at Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). Historical building sites whose State did everything, since years, to avoid disappearance initially, then the passage under complete.

The first, at the beginning of the years 2000, when he worked for the Agency of the participations of State (APE).

For this reason, it sat at the boards of directors of several companies of which building sites STX of Saint-Nazaire. “Alexis Kohler could not ignore that there was a conflict of interests to represent the French State” at STX France “while at the same time his family was owner of the one of his main customers” estimates Anticor.

The second period referred to relates to the years when he was assistant editor of the cabinet of the Minister of Economy and finances Pierre Moscovici, between May 2012 and March 2014, then when he was director of that of Emmanuel Macron, between August 2014 and August 2016. The building site of Saint-Nazaire was then the subject of many negotiations.

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