Paris region officials suspected of fictitious RATP jobs; association files complaint

An anti-corruption association has lodged a complaint alleging a system of fictitious jobs within the Paris public transport operator RATP, intended for elected officials from the Paris region. AC!! Anti-Corruption announced Wednesday that it filed a complaint against an unknown party, denouncing a suspected scheme of "fictitious jobs" for "elected officials from Paris and the surrounding region at the RATP, of all political stripes."

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The complaint, addressed to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office, follows up on the one filed last week by AC!! Anti-Corruption, against X, targeting, among others, the Insoumis Bally Bagayoko.

This new complaint builds on a previous one filed last week by the same association against an unknown party, targeting, among others, Bally Bagayoko, the far-left mayor of Saint-Denis. He is suspected by the association of embezzlement of public funds and holding a fictitious job, following a report that he held full-time positions at RATP alongside his elected duties.

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This new complaint - mainly for suspected 'embezzlement of public funds,' 'favoritism,' or 'forgery and use of forgery' - is based on a new article from Le Canard enchaîné, '200 RATP agents on the right track.'

The latest complaint, primarily citing suspicions of "embezzlement of public funds," "favoritism," and "forgery and use of forgery," is based on a new report detailing "200 RATP agents on the right track." The honorary president of AC!! Anti-Corruption, former judge Éric Halphen, stated that while the initial complaint mentioned Mr. Bagayoko, it also broadly targeted the RATP. This additional complaint aims to investigate a potential system of "sinecure jobs" within the RATP.

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The initial complaint, against X, mentioned Mr. Bagayoko but also more generally targeted the RATP. With this complementary complaint, what interests us is the system that may have existed at a given time within the RATP, with a certain number of jobs (for elected officials) that could be described as sinecures.

AC!! Anti-Corruption claims this is not about isolated incidents but a "organized and structured system of fictitious jobs" for elected officials. These individuals allegedly received RATP salaries for positions with no real activity, sometimes without clear job descriptions or even physical presence. Following the initial complaint, Mr. Bagayoko had suggested on social media that the media coverage was intended to politically discredit him. He asserted that holding elected office is not a job and that confusing a mandate with a salaried position is meant to falsely suggest fraud where only legitimate duties are exercised.

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It is on this that we would like the financial prosecutor's office to direct an investigation.