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Denunciation against the new general secretary of Elysium for its ties with shipowning group MSC
The French association Anticor has introduced a denunciation for conflict of interest
June 4, 2018
In France the Anticor, association been born in 2002 in order to fight the corruption and to restore ethics in politics with the scope to restore a relationship of confidence between the political and administrative citizens and their representatives, have introduced a denunciation near the prosecuting attorney financial of the Republic, than financial institution takes care of fight to the fiscal fraud and the economic crime, against Alexis Kohler, general secretary of Elysium.
In the complaint the association explains that Kohler would have taken advantage of the several functions that it has covered in order to promote the interests of a society pertaining to its family. In particular, Anticor explains that in the 2010 Kohler member of the executive board of the shipbuilding society of naval STX France (Chantiers de the Atlantique), charge is named that it has covered until 2012, while its family is tied of the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) having been its mother cousins of Rafaela Aponte, wife of Gianluigi Aponte, founder and owner of the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), among other things main customer of the Chantiers plant de the Atlantique di Saint-Nazaire.
According to Anticor, moreover, Kohler would have taken advantage of next its charges, that is head added cabinet and head cabinet of the Ministry of Finances, general secretary of the campaign of Emmanuel Macron and therefore general secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, in order to defend the interests of the shipowning society of which from October 2017 to March 2018 he has been financial director. The association makes reference also the role that Kohler would have had in the negotiations for the future of the yards of Saint-Nazaire, negotiations that have been concluded with an agreement for the cession of 50% of the capital of shipbuilding company (ulterior more a 1% on loan) to the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri(on 5 February 2018).
The National Procura Financial institution (PNF) French has announced today the start of an inquiry as a result of the denunciation introduced from Anticor.
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