The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened two judicial inquiries at the end of October, one “on the conditions of intervention of consulting firms in the electoral campaigns of 2017 and 2022”, the other on suspicions of “favoritism” concerning them, said indicated Thursday, November 24 the financial public prosecutor Jean-François Bohnert in a press release.
Private consultancy services on behalf of the State have come under increased scrutiny since the Senate published a very critical report on the subject in March when two senators described the State’s use of consulting firms as council of “sprawling” phenomenon. They had assessed the bill for consulting services at 893.9 million euros for the ministries in 2021.
A new framework for strategy and organization consulting was published at the end of July and the State recently claimed a drop of around 10% in its consulting expenditure in the first half of 2022, compared to the first six months of 2021. .
