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		</div><p>French investigators are searching the headquarters of the 2024 Paris Olympics organisers in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s office.</p>
<p>The Paris organising committee said in a statement that a search is under way at its offices in the Saint-Denis suburb of the French capital, and that “Paris 2024 is co-operating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations.”</p>
<p>It would not comment further.</p>
<p>Paris becomes the third straight Summer Games organiser implicated in investigations led by anti-corruption authorities in the French capital.</p>
<p>Vote-buying allegations linked to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Games previously removed several members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from that organisation.</p>
<p>An official with the financial prosecutor’s office said the searches are linked to two investigations based on information provided by an anti-corruption agency.</p>
<p>One of the probes was opened in 2017 – the year Paris was chosen by the IOC as 2024 host – into suspected embezzlement of public funds and favouritism, and concerns about an unspecified contract agreed by the Paris organisers, the prosecutor’s office said.</p>
<p>The other was opened in 2022 following an audit by the French anti-corruption agency.</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s office said that case targets suspected conflict of interest and favouritism involving several contracts agreed by the organising committee and Solideo, the company in charge of Olympic facilities.</p>
<p>The Paris Olympics are scheduled to take place from July 26 to August 11 2024.</p>
<figure id="attachment_179445" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-179445" style="width: 785px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DFE9A4E7-9502-4616-8B61-4631F06D0AFE.jpeg" alt="" width="785" height="534" class="size-full wp-image-179445" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-179445" class="wp-caption-text">International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland</figcaption></figure>
<p>The raids unfolded at the same time as the IOC executive board began a two-day meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, expecting to praise Paris organisers for their progress.</p>
<p>IOC president Thomas Bach told reporters early on Monday that the meeting “of course will be about Paris, where we have some good news after the visit of the co-ordination mission and after my visit to France, to President (Emmanuel) Macron, and also the organising committee.”</p>
<p>The IOC said it expects to release a statement on Tuesday about the raids in Paris ahead of a previously scheduled online news briefing once its meeting has closed for the day.</p>
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