New French Health Minister Under Investigation for Undeclared Gifts

Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, appointed after predecessor's resignation over immigration law, faces allegations of receiving over €20,000 in luxury gifts from Urgo Laboratories.

Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the newly appointed French health minister, is under investigation for allegedly accepting undeclared gifts from Urgo Laboratories while she was a pharmacist.
The gifts, estimated to be worth over €20,000, were reportedly received between 2015 and 2020 and included luxury items such as watches, bottles of champagne, smartphones, and a television.
The investigation into Le Bodo is part of a wider inquiry into Urgo Laboratories, which was convicted in January 2023 for breaching anti-gift laws and reportedly offered more than €55 million in gifts to pharmacists throughout France between 2015 and 2021.
Le Bodo was appointed as health minister after her predecessor, Aurélien Rousseau, resigned in protest of the country's new immigration law.
A hearing for Le Bodo's case is scheduled for January 2024.