Claude Leroy (left) and Patrick Proisy.

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  • The so-called case of fraudulent transfers from RC Strasbourg is rebounding.

    The president of the Alsatian club from 1997 to 2003, Patrick Proisy, will be retried in Nancy.

  • Why ?

    Because the Court of Cassation partially canceled Wednesday.

  • This case concerns a dozen transfers made between January 1999 and November 2001.

The so-called case of fraudulent transfers from RC Strasbourg is not over.

The president of the Alsatian club from 1997 to 2003, Patrick Proisy, will be retried in Nancy, the Court of Cassation having partially annulled his six-month suspended sentence on appeal on Wednesday.

The former leader, now 71, was sentenced to ten months suspended prison in 2016 in Strasbourg, a sentence reduced on appeal in 2019 in Colmar, for the transfers deemed fraudulent of attackers Peguy Luyindula and Per Pedersen at the turn of the 2000s. He had been found guilty of complicity in forgery, use of forgery and abuse of corporate assets.

Patrick Proisy had lodged an appeal in cassation, like one of his co-defendants Peter Griffiths, former financial manager of a branch of IMG-McCormack, the group that owned the club between 1997 and 2003, also sentenced to six months of suspended prison sentence for forgery, use of forgery and abuse of corporate assets.

New trial in Nancy

On Wednesday, the highest court of the judiciary partially quashed the judgment of the court of appeal for Patrick Proisy in the name of the principle "ne bis in idem", according to which a person cannot be sanctioned twice for them. same facts.

It also ruled that the court had not sufficiently justified its decision concerning Peter Griffiths, failing to have characterized "a personal action" on his part "falling within the powers of the administrator".

The Court of Cassation ordered a new trial in the Nancy Court of Appeal, but only for the offenses of misuse of company property and use of forgery for Patrick Proisy, and abuse of company property for Peter Griffiths, as well as for civil interests.

In this case which concerned a dozen transfers made between January 1999 and November 2001, the two men were ordered to repay jointly more than 440,000 euros to the liquidator of the Racing club of Strasbourg.

The various protagonists were prosecuted for false invoices which would have allowed the British branch of IMG-McCormack and various intermediaries to earn commissions on player transfers, to the detriment of the Alsatian club.

Racing was then plunged into a deep sporting and financial slump.

He was demoted to L2 in 2001, after nine years in the top flight.

In this case, the former club manager (1998-2000) Claude Le Roy had been fined, as was agent Nicolas Geiger.

Another agent had been released, as was another ex-executive of IMG-UK.

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