French energy minister’s links to discreet inheritance scheme raise ‘conflict of interest’ concerns

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Maxence Peigné
Maxence Peigné
Leïla Miñano
Leïla Miñano
Manuel Rico
Manuel Rico
Geoffrey Livolsi
Geoffrey Livolsi
Mathias Destal
Mathias Destal
8 November 2022
French energy transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher is at the heart of a discreet inheritance scheme linked to hedge funds based in tax havens. Her father, a long-serving Perenco executive, set up a company to donate a €1.2 million investment portfolio to the minister’s children. Campaigners say Pannier-Runacher’s failure to voluntarily declare her involvement could constitute a “conflict of interest” regarding Perenco.
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