Orange CEO Stéphane Richard will leave the group by the end of January at the latest, after being sentenced to one year in prison with suspended sentence in a fraud case in France unrelated to the company.

The long-running legal saga, linked to the late businessman Bernard Tapie and Richard’s time spent in a government job, had long been suspended from the executive’s mandate in Orange, although he had been acquitted of any wrongdoing in a previous ruling.
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Richard is credited with stabilizing Orange during the first part of his tenure, when the company was recovering from a crisis triggered by a wave of staff suicides.
“It has returned a sense of calm to working relationships, which has been a real success,” said Sébastien Crozier, a CFE-CGC union representative who sits on the Orange board of directors, before executives met on Wednesday.

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