Platini interrogated: “Did absolutely nothing wrong”

Platini has “nothing to blame himself for and has done absolutely nothing wrong,” said a statement distributed through his lawyer William Bourdon: “Michel Platini is calm and precise, he answers all questions. Also the one about the awarding of the EURO 2016, and he gave useful explanations.”

Platini, a former captain of the French national team, was questioned at the premises of the anti-corruption department of the criminal police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. There is suspicion of “active and passive corruption,” the French news agency reported AFP with reference to unnamed judicial sources.

Lunch with Sarkozy and Qatar delegation According to information from the newspaper Le Monde Platini, who is currently banned from all football activities, is to answer for a meeting with then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, and Hamad Ben Jassem, then Prime Minister of Qatar. At a lunch on November 23, 2010 in the Elysee Palace in Paris, agreements were said to have been made about awarding the World Cup to Qatar. Qatar should buy the French club Paris St. Germain, in return Platini would use his contacts and campaign for votes in the World Cup.

The World Cup was actually awarded to Qatar in 2010, and at the same time Russia was chosen to host the 2018 World Cup. In 2011, Qatar bought PSG. There have been repeated allegations of corruption in connection with the World Cup awards. Many members of the FIFA Executive Committee, which made the decision in favor of Russia and Qatar in 2010, have now been banned by the FIFA Ethics Committee.

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Platini was elected UEFA president in 2007 and banned in 2015 because of a dubious payment of 1,8 million euros that he received from the world association FIFA. Possibly because of the mediation in the course of the World Cup awarding to Qatar. Like Platini, FIFA President Sepp Blatter was initially banned for eight years. The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) later reduced the ban to four years. It expires in October. Platini had already been questioned as a witness in 2017.

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Platini interrogated: “Did absolutely nothing wrong”

After being questioned as part of the corruption investigation surrounding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, former UEFA President Michel Platini has once again denied any guilt.

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