French prosecutors drop probe into Paris Olympics 2024 chief Estanguet


Paris 2024 Paralympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - August 28, 2024 Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet gives a speech during the opening ceremony REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

PARIS, April ⁠3 (Reuters) - French financial ⁠prosecutors have dropped ‌an investigation of Paris 2024 Olympics chief Tony Estanguet ​regarding his ⁠salary, the prosecutor's ⁠department said on Friday.

It ⁠said ‌the investigation, which looked ⁠into Estanguet's salary in his ​role ‌as president of ⁠the 2024 ​Olympics organising committee, had found no ⁠case of criminal ​wrongdoing.

Estanguet, a three-time Olympic canoeing champion before taking ⁠charge of the Paris 2024 organising committee, had said he ​was ⁠not involved in the ​decision on ‌his salary.

(Reporting by ​Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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