Date of Subject: 1 July 2023 – 4:36 PM Date of Change: 1 July 2023 – 4:34 PM
PARIS (AFP) – Former France worldwide ahead Sebastien Chabal denied wrongdoing on Saturday after claiming he had greater than 100 tickets to this yr’s Rugby World Cup in France.
In keeping with Le Parisien newspaper, Chabal, one of many event’s official ambassadors, was in a position to buy a ticket regardless of a rule limiting the variety of members of the group’s workers to at least one to eight.
In a press release to AFP, Chabal, 45, stated: “Sure, for my place as ambassador for France 2023, I’ll profit from privileged entry to purchase extra tickets than one individual can afford. acquired.
“I did not get any free tickets or preferential costs. No, I am not going to make a revenue on these tickets.
“Clearly, these tickets can’t be resold by anybody cashing in on them. They don’t seem to be thought-about usable for industrial exercise.”
One other former participant, Henri Mioc, who gained the French title 4 occasions between 1977 and 1981, was stated to have managed to purchase round 600 tickets, in line with Le Parisien.
The group of the World Cup in France has been ravaged by a scandal after the event’s chief organizer, Claude Atcher, was dismissed in October for abusing his place.
France’s Nationwide Monetary Crime Prosecutor’s Workplace is investigating attainable favoritism, corruption and influence-selling throughout the group answerable for organizing the event.
Chabal and Miok, who retired in 2014, purchased tickets when investigators searched the organizers’ workplaces final November.
A supply near the investigation instructed AFP that “questions have been raised concerning the ticket resale speculation, however nothing has been established at this stage.”
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