The affair risks embarrassing the government. Two senior officials and former superiors of Alexis Kohler were indicted on February 9 for “complicity in the illegal taking of interests” in the investigation into the links of the secretary general of the Elysée with the shipowner MSC, indicated the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) on Monday, confirming a information from France Televisions.
Bruno Bézard and Jean-Dominique Comolli, successive bosses between 2007 and 2010 then between 2010 and 2012 of the Agence des participations de l’Etat (APE), were Alexis Kohler’s superiors when the latter took part in deliberations in as a director of STX France (now Chantiers de l’Atlantique) and the Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH), both linked to the shipowner MSC, a group belonging to members of his family.