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Top 14 champions Toulouse docked points over unusual transactions
By Josh Raisey
Reigning Top 14 champions Toulouse have been docked two points and fined €45k by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) due to “unusual financial transactions” surrounding the signing of Melvyn Jaminet in 2022.
The club have been under investigation by the Commission de Contrôle des Championnats professionnels (CCCP), with the findings, and subsequent sanctions, from the investigation released on Monday.
The investigation concerned transactions that helped Toulouse circumvent salary cap rulings with their €450k signing of Jaminet from Perpignan in 2022.
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Toulouse were found to have failed to declare image rights guaranteed to Jaminet, and have therefore been fined and docked points, with a further two-point deduction and a €15k fine suspended. The deduction saw Toulouse drop from the top of the league ladder to second behind Pau.
The LNR statement reads: “The disciplinary board considered that the evidence emerging from the investigation carried out by the CCCP demonstrated that the club was in breach of its obligation to maintain proper accounting records in accordance with accounting law for all transactions, in accordance with the provisions stipulated in particular by the A2R regulations, and that it had failed to declare to the CCCP the image rights guaranteed to Mr. Melvyn Jaminet.”
Toulouse have since issued a statement on social media, in which they did not rule out appealing the decision. They have seven days to lodge an appeal.
“Toulouse acknowledge the decision rendered by the National Rugby League,” was written on X.
“The decision comes at the end of a procedure whose modalities have profoundly damaged its image, and we deplore this.
“Committed to its values ??of transparency and responsibility, Toulouse will analyse in the coming days, with its legal counsel, the possibility of appealing to uphold its rights.”
Following their shock loss to Glasgow Warriors in the Investec Champions Cup, Toulouse return to the Top 14 this weekend against Lyon.
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