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Prosecutors probe funding deals when basketball star Wembanyama was lured to French club

Before he joined the San Antonio Spurs in the US, the French basketball prodigy Victor Wembanyama, now an MBA superstar, played for one year with Metropolitans 92, based in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. The club was owned by the town hall, and the local mayor did his utmost to sign Wembanyama, including seeking funding from private companies in deals that are now at the centre of a prosecutors’ probe into suspected corruption.

Antton Rouget

In 2022, rising French basketball star Victor “Wemby” Wembanyama, then aged 18 and attracting the attention of clubs worldwide, and notably those of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US, signed up with the Metropolitans 92, a club based in a suburb west of Paris.

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