Overview
- The national police directorate sanctioned the longtime security liaison to the France squad on December 20 for failing to inform his superiors about a €60,300 donation from Kylian Mbappé.
- The payment was made in June 2023 from Mbappé’s 2022 World Cup bonus, and four brigadiers-chefs also received €30,000 each, bringing total gifts to €180,300.
- A banker flagged the transfer to Tracfin in July 2024, prompting a judicial investigation that remains ongoing into alleged concealed work and laundering of tax fraud.
- The officer’s lawyer says the gift was lawful, paid by check, required no declaration, and came with no quid pro quo, and he will seek to overturn the sanction.
- Sources say the officer had already applied to retire effective December 31 and is set to work for the French Football Federation on a fixed-term deal for the next World Cup.