A top aide to French President Emmanuel Macron was placed under formal investigation for allegedly violating conflict-of-interest laws
PARIS— involving his family ties to a Swiss-Italian shipping company that fell under his purview while he was a senior finance official.
Prosecutors say they opened the probe after anticorruption group Anticor filed a complaint targeting Alexis Kohler, Mr. Macron’s chief of staff. Anticor alleges that Mr. Kohler failed to disclose his relationship with Mediterranean Shipping Co., which is owned by a relative, and helped defend the company’s interests when he worked for the APE state holding agency between 2010 and 2012, a spokeswoman for the group said.
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