In a corruption case with Mali, Jérôme Carrus, former director of the Carrus Group, a leading provider of betting services Horseracing appeared on Tuesday in advance admission of guilt (CRPC) at Paris is sentenced to one year in prison with a suspended sentence.

At the helm, Jérôme Carrus, former director of the Group Carrus regretted his actions. “I deeply regret what happened, I saw how Africa worked for a year and a half...”, he said sorry at the stand, Mr. Carrus, during a recognition hearing Prerequisite of guilt (CRPC), a kind of French-style guilty plea.

Mr. Carrus acknowledged the payment of just over 78,000 euros to a PMU-Mali manager in the 2010s to insure a market for the provision of services related to horseracing betting in this country.

His prison year with suspended sentence is accompanied by a confiscation of 100,000 euros and a ban on civil, civil and family rights for one year