Overview

• Philippe Mettoux stepped down hours before taking office, citing entrenched ‘negative forces’ blocking his mandate to reform Monaco’s administration.
• Didier Linotte, ex-president of the principality’s highest court and once a close royal confidant, was charged with illegal taking of interest in an organized group and passive corruption.
• Around thirty inquiries are underway into alleged malversations by former associates of Prince Albert II since the 2021 ‘Dossiers du Rocher’ revelations.
• The minister of state role, traditionally filled by a French national appointed by the prince, must now be refilled amid deepening political turmoil.
• Monaco remains under international scrutiny after being placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s gray list and the European Commission’s high-risk list for money laundering.