an investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “kidnapping” and “kidnapping”

A judicial investigation was opened on January 23 by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “kidnapping” and “kidnapping”, after the complaint of the Franco-Algerian Tayeb Benabderrahmane, learned France Inter. A lobbyist for Qatar and a businessman, he was arrested on January 13, 2020 in Doha and was only able to leave Qatar six months later. After a complaint filed by his lawyers in August 2022, an investigation was opened and entrusted to an investigating judge.

Tayeb Benabderrahmane says his arrest was “arbitrary”. He accuses the president of Paris Saint Germain, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, to be the sponsor of this arrest. He assures that he was targeted because he had the mobile phone of the president of the football club and confidential documents on the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

To be able to leave the country after six months, Tayeb Benabderrahmane claims that he had to return this phone and these documents to the president of the Parisian club, as part of a secret transaction between lawyers.

A butler and intimate images

Tayeb Benabderrahmane is also indicted, along with two former DGSI police officers, in the same case for “theft”, “influence peddling” and “invasion of privacy”. Investigators want to know how he got hold of the confidential documents and cell phone. During a search of the home of one of the ex-police officers, the investigators discovered copies of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s phone, including sextapes.

According to the summary of a joint investigation by the DGSI and the IGPN that France Inter was able to consult, the Franco-Algerian lobbyist recovered the telephone and these images via the butler of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. The two men are suspected of having wanted to blackmail the president of PSG with intimate images. At this stage, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi has not been heard by the courts.