Several newspapers, including the Lettre de l’Expansion, have echoed the interest of the insurer Allianz to acquire the brokerage activity of Vilavi, ex-Assu 2000 caught in a scandal last year. Without confirming, Allianz said Friday attached to the “sustainability of the activity” of Vilavi.
Presenting itself as a long-time partner, Allianz stressed in a statement sent to AFP that it was attentive to the sustainability of the activity of a major broker employing 1,800 people and counting hundreds of thousands of policyholders, including numerous Allianz France and Allianz Partners clients.
The Vilavi group entered a zone of great turbulence about a year ago: its founder Jacques Bouthier was imprisoned and indicted for trafficking in human beings and rape of a minor.
Landed at the start of the scandal, the rich businessman is also being prosecuted in France for conspiracy to commit the crime of kidnapping and kidnapping in an organized gang. In Morocco, one of the main countries where the brokerage group operates, it is also the subject of a major investigation for sexual harassment.
His successor Michael Hrr, a former Allianz employee, sketched last November the prospect of selling the group by the end of 2023.
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If the hypothesis of a change in the shareholding, by the end of 2023, is indeed an option on which the Vilavi group has already communicated, the group does not wish to comment on what are today only rumors. market, a spokeswoman for the company told AFP on Friday.