The French financial prosecutor PNF has looked through the workplaces of the French Football League (LFP) and confidential value firm CVC Capital Partners following charges of corruption.
The claims connect with an deal signed in 2022 that saw CVC pay 1.5bn euros (£1.25bn) for a 13% stake in LFP's new auxiliary organization connected with television freedoms.
The agreement was censured in a new report by the French Senate, which addressed who stands to profit from the arrangement.
Specialists are presently investigating the circumstances under which it was concurred, including into a 37m euros (£30.8m) reward that should be divided out on fulfillment among banks, legal counselors and the association's managers.
"We can affirm that searches are at present under way, including at the workplaces of the Expert Football Association as well as those of the speculation store CVC," said a PNF explanation.
"These activities are important for an examination that was opened and afterward relegated to the Paris Exploration Segment on 16 July, 2024, on charges of misappropriation of public assets, dynamic and latent defilement of a public authority, and unlawful irreconcilable situation."
The LFP, which deals with the main two levels of French football - Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 - has been battling monetarily following the breakdown of a past TV bargain in 2021.
CVC oversees around 193bn euros (£161bn) of resources across the world remembering various speculations for sport, most strikingly the Six Countries and Prevalence Rugby.