Issue of importanceSpecifically it is assigned as knowing

Thirty-five years after the death of the last of its founders and nine years after its acquisition by Vincent Bolloré, empire Rivaud continues to pay the chronic. This morning at 9 a.m., a hearing will be held in the House of the President of the tribunal de grande instance of Paris to decide on a request concerning the succession of the comte René de Rivaud died in 1971. It is one of the two daughters of the deceased, Micheline de Rivaud, claiming relief for several years to justice. It believes have been classification for much of the legacy of his father, still very active in the group to his death.

The purpose of the hearing held today is to consider the desirability of additional expertise, after that first and voluminous report was submitted in October 2005, a case whose ramifications far beyond strictly private. Since the assignment is not only the historical actors in this case, i.e. Guillemette Saint Clivier, the other daughter of René de Rivaud, her ex-husband Bernard Saint Clivier, former Secretary General of the Bank Rivaud or Edouard de Ribes. Vincent Bolloré is also covered, as the new owner of the empire.

Issue of importance

Specifically, it is assigned as "knowing". If the judge granted the application, it can be heard by the expert. It can also travel to the headquarters of the Bolloré group "to consult all the archives of the Rivaud group." The issue may be of importance to the business man, since, if the thesis Micheline de Rivaud and its delegate to Didier Taillet is fair, it could still have rights in the former group Rivaud.

In the immediate future, the heiress wishes to obtain the elements to be found in the maquis of the Rivaud Galaxy to better understand the influence of comte René de Rivaud on many subsidiaries of the group to the often capital-intensive inextricably. She hopes to reconstruct as specifically as possible the heritage of his father at his death in 1971. It must be said that the Declaration of succession established in December 1972 emphasized heritage assets gross 4,666 million francs, or the nominal value of the shares in the Bank, even though it was still the co-managing and that he was present at the Board of Directors of several keys for all subsidiaries.

Deleted Swiss assets

At the same time, it's to Micheline de Rivaud to understand what comprised assets Swiss of the count, "completely shadowed in the Declaration of succession", according to the expert report submitted in October 2005. The existence of this part submerged of fortune appeared early 1987, thereby skipping the legal requirement. At this time, a payment of 3.17 million Swiss francs was conducted for the benefit of Micheline de Rivaud and her sister, by the Swiss Bank Corporation on the order of the Bank Mirabaud. Subsequently, in March 1995, said the expert, the Bank Mirabaud said in a letter to a Swiss notary commissioned by the applicant that "Bernard Saint Clivier was aware of the entire estate René de Rivaud in Switzerland". What, considers the entourage of the heir, who obtained the bits of information on the functioning of the Swiss accounts of the family, questioned the existence of a trust in Switzerland. He will return to the complementary expertise of this issue.

If the judge hearing the application considered that there was no place for him to look at the record, the case would be tried on the merits in the coming weeks.