An international arrest warrant has been issued to Rocky Elsom, the former captain of the national Australian rugby team, due to forgery while helming a French rugby club.
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00:00An international arrest warrant has been issued for Rocky Elsem, the former captain of the
00:07Australian rugby team, after a French court found him guilty of misusing corporate assets.
00:14The alleged offending occurred while Elsem was president of the French rugby club Narbonne
00:19from 2015 to 2016.
00:21According to French media reports, the former Wallabies flanker was sentenced in absentia
00:26to five years in prison and was ordered to pay back €700,000 in squandered assets.