According to the information of the “World”, the former FIFA President was heard as Witness Thursday and Friday in Zurich, as part of the judicial information opened by the National Financial Office on the award of the World 2022 in Qatar.
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The French Justice Survey on the controversial allocation of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar advances. According to the information of the world, police officers from the Central Office to fight against corruption and financial and fiscal offenses (OCLCIFF) questioned as a witness, at the premises of the Public Ministry of the Helvetic Confederation (MPC) in Zurich, Thursday 25 And Friday, November 26, Sepp Blatter, 85, the former Swiss president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), in the presence of his lawyer, M e Lorenz Erni.
This hearing, which lasted more than six hours in total, was conducted by the investigating judges and the investigators in charge of the file on the basis of a request for mutual legal assistance made to the Swiss authorities by the Court. Call of Paris. It is part of the open judicial information, in 2019, by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) for “active and passive corruption”, as well as “concealed and money laundering” of these offenses.
In April 2017, two PNF magistrates had heard Sepp Blatter as a witness in Zurich while a preliminary inquiry had been opened on the Conditions of Attribution of the World 2022. Initially, the investigators wanted to reallure him in Paris. But the former Patriarch of World Football had indicated that he would answer their questions in Switzerland: he had no longer leaving his native country since the American justice opened a series of judicial investigations in 2015 against several north and southern dignitaries. – FIFA Americans.
“Qatar had to thank France”
At the hearing of Mr. Blatter, one of the topics evoked was a lunch at the Elysee organized on November 23, 2010 by Nicolas Sarkozy. French magistrates seek to verify whether a corruptual pact was concluded at this appointment to which the President of the Republic had invited Michel Platini, President of the Union of European Soccer Associations, the current Emir of Qatar, Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani, as well as his Prime Minister.
Heard in custody in June 2019 at the OCLCIFF premises in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), Michel Platini is suspected by investigators for voted in favor of Qatar at the request of Mr. Sarkozy, during the attribution vote organized by FIFA, December 2, 2010.
“Without the intervention at the last moment of Sarkozy on Platini, the Qatar would never have had the World Cup, recently reaffirmed Sepp Blatter in the world. Especially since, if the sale of PSG in Qatar had Location after the vote is that it’s 100% bound. Qatar had to thank France a little. “
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