Rugby players’ millions vanish in €100m French club deal

Ask AI 11 min Rugby players say they were persuaded to invest hundreds of thousands of euros in a proposed takeover of French club Béziers. Pictured here is Anthony Johnson, left, and Johan Roux.

Springbok wing Makazole Mapimpi's agent and a former World Cup star are in hot water after persuading rugby players to hand over hundreds of thousands of euros to buy a French club.

But instead of buying Béziers, a fallen giant of French rugby playing in the second division, the money was transferred into an Italian man's personal bank account in Poland, where a criminal case has now been opened.