Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter Quizzed Over Qatar 2022 Global Cup Vote | Soccer Information

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been interviewed by means of French anti-corruption police investigating the arguable vote to award the 2022 Global Cup to Qatar. Blatter, 85, was once summoned to seem as a “witness” on Thursday and Friday, French police mentioned, confirming a file in Le Monde newspaper. The inquiry is being led by means of France’s OCLCIFF anti-corruption unit. A part of its focal point surrounds a November 23, 2019, dinner hosted by means of then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two prime rating Qatari officers, and Michel Platini, then head of UEFA.

Platini is suspected of getting voted for Qatar on the request of Sarkozy.

Investigators also are having a look at a 300 million greenback contract with a 100 million bonus for FIFA giving the tv rights for the 2018 Global Cup in Russia and the 2022 one in Qatar to Qatari tv station Al-Jazeera, if Qatar was once awarded the event.

Blatter’s listening to was once held on the Swiss Public Prosecutor’s administrative center in Zurich and was once a part of the prison procedure into the Qatar vote opened by means of France’s Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Place of job (PNF).

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Blatter was once FIFA president between 1998 and 2015 when he was once compelled to face down and banned from soccer for 8 years, lowered later to 6, over ethics breaches.

Qatar was once the wonder selection within the December 2010 FIFA vote for subsequent 12 months’s Global Cup.