Photo: AFPAFP/The Local · 16 Sep 2016, 11:37Published: 16 Sep 2016 11:37 GMT+02:00France's state auditors have rebuked heads of the Paris Opera Ballet for their taxi bills and for providing star choreographer Benjamin Millepied with a car and chauffeur. They criticised around 10 directors who had worked up taxi bills of nearly €100,000 between them in 2013 and 2014, and also took aim at the "quite high level" of spending on business lunches. The perk has since been abolished, and the Opera Ballet insisted Friday that its taxi bill for management and guest artists had been reduced by nearly a third since. It's not the first time Paris Opera staff have been rebuked over spending. And unexpectedly large taxi bills also made headlines in France last year, when Agnès Saal, the head of France's National Audiovisual Institute, resigned after she built up €40,000 worth of taxi bills in just ten months.

Source: The Local September 16, 2016 09:45 UTC