In Angers, to the sporting setbacks, are added the legal and behavioral cases that accumulate. Red lantern of L1, SCO Angers is going through a bad period. On Tuesday, Saïd Chabane was taken into police custody and heard by investigators from the Central Game Racing Service at the DCPJ in Nanterre. After 36 hours of hearing, it is now fixed. The owner of SCO Angers who has just left his presidency to his son Romain will be tried on June 7 for “organized money laundering”.
The businessman, who made his fortune in charcuterie, will also be tried for “illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent”… Which “for a club president, is a bit unprecedented”, as has underlined his lawyer Bernard Benaiem.
At the center of the investigations were questionable financial transactions and the role of several players’ agents during transfers made by the SCO of Angers. Two searches were carried out in connection with this case on June 14, 2022 and January 3, 2023.
Chabane was already embroiled in a sexual assault case for which he will also be tried in the coming weeks.
This Thursday morning, Lyes Chetti, a 28-year-old defender from Angers, had been given a four-month suspended prison sentence for a sexual assault on a young woman on December 4 during an evening in a nightclub.
