Bernard Tapie, newspaper owner and former owner of Olympique Marseille and government minister under President Mitterrand, has been operated on at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco.
Photo: JJ Georges
The often controversial businessman underwent emergency surgery for a burst peritoneum in the middle of the week, and after 48 hours in hospital is now convalescing at his home in Saint-Tropez, local French daily Monaco Matin reports.
The former minister suffers from cancer of the stomach and esophagus. He had already been operated on in Paris in January, and three quarters of his stomach had been removed. Since then, he has been fighting the disease and is undergoing more chemotherapy while continuing to live as normal a life as possible.
Accounts Commission takes note of energy expenditures
The Superior Commission of Accounts has presented the 2017 Annual Public Report to HSH the Sovereign Prince.
Available on the Government website, the report deals, in application of the Sovereign Ordinance of July 2, 2008, with the activities of the Commission during the past year.
In the course of 2017, the Supreme Audit Committee carried out a review of the accounts and the management of the State in 2016.
Audits were carried out on the accounts and the management of the Scientific Center of Monaco (fiscal years 2007 to 2014), the Post Office in Monaco (fiscal years 2012 to 2015) and the New National Museum of Monaco (fiscal years 2009 to 2015). In 2017, the Higher Audit Commission started an audit of the Princess Grace Hospital Center, which should be completed in 2018.
Finally, the Commission carried out three sets of investigations, at the request of the Prince’s Government, concerning, respectively, the procedure for the carry-over of credits, the amortisation of items of expenditure and energy expenditures.
Meanwhile, the Campaign Audit Commission has just submitted to the Minister of State its report on the costs incurred by the three parties that competed in the last national elections, which took place in February 2018.
The accounts of each of the parties were validated and remained within the ceiling of 320,000 euros set by law. Detailed reports of the spending of “Priority Monaco”, “Horizon Monaco” and “Union Monégasque” were published in the Journal de Monaco, the Principality’s official gazette, on Friday, August 3.
As part of Peace and Sport’s ongoing efforts to use sport as a tool for dialogue around the world, the Monaco-based organisation will hold the 2018 Friendship Games in Bujumbura, Burundi from August 17 to 19 in cooperation with the National Olympic Committee of Burundi, eight international sport federations and with the participation of Champion for Peace and basketball silver medallist Isabelle Yacoubou.
Each year, this event, brings together every year 200 young athletes from Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
For the ninth edition, the Benin-born French basketball player Isabelle will team up with karate world runner-up Fodé Ndao to share the Olympic values of cooperation, self-initiative, dialogue and team spirit with the young participants and they will lead the basketball and martial arts competitions.
Peace and Sport President and Founder, Joel Bouzou, said: “This ninth edition of the Friendship Games will focus on sharing the positive values of sports such as team spirit, respect and solidarity. Isabelle represents perfectly these values, and I am excited to see her capacity and commitment to inspire the youth. Our Champions for Peace play an integral role in spreading our message of peace around the world and I want to thank Isabelle for her involvement.”
2009, Peace and Sport with the involvement of National Olympic Committees, international and national sporting federations, local authorities and Champions for Peace, supports six training centres in the Great Lakes region in Africa. Youngsters from these centres gather for a three-day event – the Friendship Games – marked by a sport tournament, cultural exchanges and peace-building activities. So far more than 1500 youngsters have had the opportunity to participate, compete, forge intercultural dialogue and experience the power of sport for peace.
As part of the modernisation of its computer system and in a continuous effort to improve Monaco’s anti-money laundering policy, the Information and Control Service of Financial Circuits (SICCFIN) has been working for many months, with the support of the Government, on a project to strengthen the security of the IT system.
Left to right: Eric Bergesi, Michael Schoeb, Yann Raconnat Goff and Karine Imbert
One of the strengths of this project is the installation on the SICCFIN servers of the “goAML” operational and strategic analysis support software developed and developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Drug Control, (UNODC), specifically designed for Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) such as SICCFIN.
The main objective of this software is to improve the capacity of countries to implement their money-laundering and terrorist financing policies. The software meets the requirements of a FIU, regardless of its size, with an “all in one” solution. It has been successfully deployed in several countries and enjoys international recognition.
Three agents from Monaco, Karine Imbert, Eric Bergesi and Yann Raconnat le Goff, travelled to Liechtenstein at the invitation of the Director of the national FIU (EFFI), Daniel Thelesklaf, to study the operation of the computer tool, as Liechtenstein had implemented it several months ago. In addition to the technical side of the visit, the occasion also strengthened the links between the staff of EFFI and SICCFIN.
Paris Saint-Germain’s new coach Thomas Tuchel made a successful start on Saturday, August 4, with a comprehensive 4-0 win over AS Monaco in the French Super Cup at Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre.
Angel Di Maria scored twice as Tuchel, who was appointed to replace Unai Emery ahead of the new season, steered PSG to a record-equalling eighth Super Cup win and handed Neymar a cameo appearance at the end of the second half, ESPN reports.
The Brazilian was not given a place in the starting line-up having just returned to training this week following the World Cup in Russia, while neither Kylian Mbappe nor Edinson Cavani travelled to China with the rest of the squad.
New arrival Gianluigi Buffon did start between the posts for his new team after signing in the close season from Juventus, but had little to do in a game dominated by France’s domestic treble winners against last season’s Ligue 1 runners-up.
Di Maria had been a lively presence throughout the first half and the Argentine opened the scoring 12 minutes before the break when he capitalised on a foul on Adrien Rabiot to stroke his curling free kick over the wall and beyond Diego Benaglio.
Seven minutes later Christopher Nkunku sent home PSG’s second from close range as his side took a two-goal cushion into halftime. Midway through the second half, Timothy Weah put the result beyond doubt when he slipped the ball through Benaglio’s legs from eight yards to make the most of Stanley N’Soki’s darting run and cutback from the touchline.
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