The Bouygues group will file suit against The Chained Duck for writing that construction giant could be involved in possible corruption in the allocation of the site of the future "French Pentagon" contract awarded in May
"I'm angry and I complain," said Martin Bouygues, CEO of the group Les Echos to be published Thursday"We will assign Duck chained for defamation in the next few days for uttering false accusations against us and suggest that, since we are in construction, it is dishonest," he added
Martin Bouygues has denounced the "insinuations (which) are misleading and false""Our lawyers have asked the attorney if Bouygues was involved, the answer is noWe conducted an internal investigation that did not work eitherThere is nothing in the record for our group, "he said
"It's unbearableThe damage in terms of image are enormous, "he added
The Chained Duck revealed that a judicial investigation for corruption and influence peddling was opened in February on possible wrongdoing in the awarding of the construction group Bouygues of the future headquarters of the Ministry in the area Balard (fifteenth arrondissement)
According to the satirical weekly, a senior defense official is suspected of having sent a senior executive of Bouygues the specifications of the market before its competitors
Bouygues Construction said on Wednesday that "no measures of inquiry or investigation" has been initiated against him, and "none of his employees have been the subject of a meeting, hearing or notification"
Source: AFP |
