International arrest warrant issued for decorated ex-Leinster Rugby player Rocky Elsom

Elsom was sentenced on Friday in absentia to five years after being found guilty of forgery and misuse of corporate assets at French club Narbonne from 2015 to 2016

An international arrest warrant has been issued for former Australia captain Rocky Elsom.

A French court found him guilty of misusing corporate assets while he was president of French rugby club Narbonne.

According to French media reports, the former Wallabies and Leinster Rugby flanker was sentenced on Friday in absentia to five years after also being found guilty of forgery and ordered to pay back squandered assets of €700,000 at the club from 2015 to 2016.

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The 41-year-old Elsom played 75 times for Australia from 2005-11 and represented Leinster Rugby in the 2008/09 season, winning the 2009 European Cup.

He has been working as a coach at a school in Dublin, according to a recent interview with The Sunday Times newspaper.

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