According to French media, the former UEFA President Michel Platini has been taken on reports. He is being questioned by police, it says. It is about the suspicion of corruption in awarding the 2022 world Cup.
The former President of the European football Union, Michel Platini, is to report to the matching media from France have been arrested. The 63-Year-old is being questioned by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre by the Anti-corruption Abbey of participation of the criminal investigation Department, said. There is a suspicion of the “active and passive corruption” in the Wake of the controversial award of the 2022 world Cup to Qatar was. According to a justice official, who wished to remain anonymous, was also taken Sophie Dion, a former adviser to the French Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy for the field of sport, in police custody.
Currently for all football activities locked Platini to answer to the media information about a secret meeting with President Sarkozy, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and Hamad Ben Jassem, the former Prime Minister of Qatar,. At a lunch in November 2010 at the Elysee Palace in Paris, the Parties to agreements should have taken over the world Cup award to Qatar. Allegedly Qatar should buy the French club Paris St. Germain, in exchange, Platini would leave his contacts and for votes during the world Cup-the award of advertise.
The world Cup was awarded a few weeks later, in fact, in Qatar, at the same time Russia, as the world Cup was chosen to host 2018. In 2011, Qatar at PSG bought. In connection with the world Cup-have been Awarded again and again, allegations of corruption, according to.
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At the time, quite the best of friends: Platini and Blatter (R)
Platini had been locked by the end of 2015 in the Wake of the FIFA corruption scandal, together with FIFA President Joseph Blatter to the ethics Committee of world football organization for eight years. It was a ominous payment Blatter’s comments about to Platini in the amount of 1.8 million Euro from the year 2011 – supposedly for consultant services. The suspicion that Blatter have bought Platini’s support for re-election as FIFA Boss in the same year.
The FIFA appeal court officials confirmed in February 2016, the judgment against the two top, reduced the barrier to six years. Platini went before the court of arbitration for sport CAS, which downgraded in may 2016, the penalty for the Frenchman to four years down. Platini spoke of the “injustice” and resigned from the Post of UEFA President that he held for nine years. Until its lock Platini had been regarded as the Favourite to succeed Blatter’s comments about at the top of the world Federation FIFA.
In his football career, Platini had led as captain the French national team in 1984 to the European champion title in their own country. Three times in a row, he was Europe’s “footballer of the year” and is to this day with nine goals, EM-record-goal-scorer – in addition to the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
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