PARIS (AFP) – Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been interviewed by French anti-corruption police investigating the controversial vote to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Blatter, 85, was summoned to seem as a “witness” on Thursday and Friday, French police mentioned, confirming a report in Le Monde newspaper.
The inquiry is being led by France’s OCLCIFF anti-corruption unit.
A part of its focus surrounds a Nov 23, 2019, dinner hosted by then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two excessive rating Qatari officers, and Michel Platini, then head of Uefa.
Platini is suspected of getting voted for Qatar on the request of Sarkozy.
Investigators are additionally taking a look at a US$300 million (S$411.5 million) contract with a US$100 million bonus for Fifa giving the tv rights for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 one in Qatar to Qatari tv station Al-Jazeera, if Qatar was awarded the match.
Blatter’s listening to was held on the Swiss Public Prosecutor’s workplace in Zurich and was a part of the authorized course of into the Qatar vote opened by France’s Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Workplace (PNF).
Blatter was Fifa president between 1998 and 2015 when he was compelled to face down and banned from soccer for eight years, diminished later to 6, over ethics breaches.
Qatar was the shock alternative within the December 2010 Fifa vote for subsequent yr’s World Cup.
