2023-06-02 10:14:00
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Casino number one is having a bad time. He was heard by the Financial Brigade. And must also struggle with a vertiginous debt. Portrait.
For Beatrice Parrino
© ERIC PIERMONT / AFP
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QLet it be said, the very discreet Jean-Charles Naouri is a fighter. Blows, he took some, and he gave some. Did he think about it when he had to sit down facing the police officers of the Financial Brigade on 1is June ? At 74, the grand chief of the Casino group was placed in police custody for a few hours as part of an investigation for price manipulation. An extraordinary character of French capitalism. By his intelligence, his combativeness, his complexity, the means employed, his professional rise, and his bumpy end to his career. For a long time, he was presented as the Mozart of finance; today, the Casino group, which he controls through several holding companies, is beset by billionaire debt, and could pass into the fold of the business duo Daniel Kretinsky-Marc Lad…
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