Anne Gravoin, the French Prime Minister’s wife runs an orchestra, the Alma Chamber Orchestra, which is financed by the businessman Zouhir Boudemagh. Now, as reported by L’Obs, his company PGO Automobiles, seems to be in serious financial difficulties. This small French manufacturer of luxury cars has forty employees technically unemployed since February, yet the financial figures for 2014 show that Boudemagh was spending that year exorbitant sums in advertising (€670,000), travel (€308,000), entertainment expenses (€104,000 ), plus 245,000 euros of other non-detailed expenses. Worried about their future, his employees rise questions and ask with what money Zouhir Boudemagh has funded the orchestra of which the wife of Manuel Valls is the artistic director and First violin?

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