Orange CEO steps down after French appeals court ruling

Stéphane Richard (pictured), who has been Chairman and CEO of French operator group Orange for almost a decade, has been forced to throw in the towel by a recent court ruling.
A French appeals court partially overturned a 2019 ruling that cleared Richard of any wrongdoing in back when he was part of the French government. The matter in question concerned a payment from the French state to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008, overseen by then Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, so whom Richa