The French police searched the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee and other offices on Tuesday as part of two corruption investigations over contracts signed in connection with the Games, prosecutors said.
While the scope and nature of the investigations were not fully clear on Tuesday, the investigations threatened to tarnish an image of integrity and transparency that the authorities overseeing the Paris 2024 plans had sought to project, after a string of past Olympic bids that were riddled by corruption allegations.
The offices of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, in Seine-Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, and those of a separate body in charge of Games-related infrastructure, in western Paris, were both searched by investigators, according to the National Financial Prosecutor’s office.