2023-09-26 17:13:28
An investigating judge in Paris responsible for investigations into the controversial awarding of the 2022 football World Cup to Qatar has issued an international arrest warrant against Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, suspected of corruption, a report told AFP on Tuesday. judicial source, confirming information from The team.
According to the sports daily, this arrest warrant was issued on June 22 following several summons before the financial magistrate to which he did not respond.
Mohamed Bin Hammam, former president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), is “indicted for acts of private corruption linked to the awarding of the Football World Cup to Qatar”, specified the judicial source .
The businessman was banned for life from football authorities following accusations of corruption and conflicts of interest.
This part of the judicial information opened in 2019 focuses on the role played by this influential Qatari in the about-face of the Tahitian Reynald Temarii, former president of the Oceanian Football Confederation (OFC), the day before the appointment of the emirate as host country.
Suspended for one year by the International Football Federation (Fifa) on November 17, 2010 for violation of the code of ethics, Mr. Temarii could no longer sit on the organization’s executive committee on December 2, 2010 for the vote. The OFC therefore had to appoint a replacement who would have given its vote to Australia and then, in the event of failure, to the United States, Qatar’s main rivals. However, Mr. Temarii appealed his suspension on the night of November 30 to December 1 even though he had previously announced that he would accept the sanction and did not have the motivations of the ethics committee allowing him this appeal.
By appealing, according to the FIFA statutes, he deprived the OFC of a representative during the vote. On December 2, 2010, Qatar won against the United States, although they were favorites.
The coverage of Mr. Temarii’s defense costs for an amount of 305,000 euros by Mohamed Bin Hammam and the financing of the Tahitian’s trip to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to meet him between his sanction and the FIFA vote intrigue investigators .
During this stay, the Qatari allegedly convinced Mr. Temarii to appeal his sanction.
In this section, Mr. Temarii, the consultant Jean-Charles Brisard and the lawyer Géraldine Lesieur are indicted. They dispute the accusations.
In another aspect, the financial magistrates are seeking to determine whether the vote in favor of Qatar by Michel Platini, at the time head of UEFA, was obtained in exchange for compensation.
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