The article doesn't mention it, but McKinsey in France is currently under judicial inquiries for at least two reasons:
- They worked on the presidential campaigns of Macron in 2017 and 2022, and were awarded huge government contracts with little or no bidding afterwards
- They didn't pay any taxes in France since 2011, sending money to the mothership instead to reduce taxable profits to zero; and their managing partner, who is accused of having lied to parliament about it, resigned in the wake of that discovery.
- They worked on the presidential campaigns of Macron in 2017 and 2022, and were awarded huge government contracts with little or no bidding afterwards
- They didn't pay any taxes in France since 2011, sending money to the mothership instead to reduce taxable profits to zero; and their managing partner, who is accused of having lied to parliament about it, resigned in the wake of that discovery.
Here's one article (of many), in French:
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/affaire-mckinsey-une-...
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So it's not just South Africa, UK and the US; it really is everywhere.