Real Madrid -Superster Kylian Mbappe is never far from the headlines, regardless of what he does, but has again made ripples in France. A series of payments by the French captain is being investigated.
Mbappe is part of a study that started in five members of the Republican Security Corps (CRS) report Le Canard EnChaine (via Sport). The CRs are generally accused of general safety, but in particular controlling crowds, disturbances and protests.
The focus of the investigation is Mbappe payments to five CRS agents in June 2023. The Intelligence Service Tracfin, which follows financial crimes in France, has a document that describes payments from € 30k to four CRS agents that summer, with a fifth agent who receives a total of € 60.3k. The total edition of the Mbappe accounts amounts to € 180.3k, which was marked by their systems. All five officers were at that time assigned to protect the French national team.
The leader of France had promised to donate all his prize money from the Qatar World Cup 2022 to the security forces that protected them during the tournament, just six months earlier. There is a signed document from Mbappe that says so much, and the Real Madrid star had consulted his lawyer who assured that the security staff did not have to include the donations in their tax statement.
The internal investigator in the French police tries to determine whether the 'donations' relate to their work at the World Cup, or in reality against personal protection for the 26-year-old. In particular, the fifth commander, under the microscope, lies two trips to Cameroon and Vaucluse in the south of France next to Mbappe in June 2023.
Les Bleus played European qualifications against Gibraltar and Greece that month, in which Mbappe was involved. The latter was in Paris in the Stade de France, somehow of Vaucluse.