Less than a year from the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, French justice is continuing its investigation into the conditions of its attribution.
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The choice of Qatar continues to question. Sepp Blatter, former president of the International Football Federation (Fifa), was heard by French investigators on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 November in Zurich (Switzerland) as part of the controversial awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, learned l ‘AFP to the police, confirming information from the World.
Sepp Blatter has been heard as “witness” by investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial Offenses (OCLCIFF) on the premises of the Swiss Confederation Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPC), as part of a judicial investigation opened in France by the national financial prosecutor’s office (PNF).
French justice has been investigating the subject for several years. A preliminary investigation had been carried out for three years by the national financial prosecutor’s office, which then entrusted in 2019 the investigations to an investigating judge, to “active and passive corruption”, “concealment” and “laundering”.