former french president Nicolas Sarkozy has received a new complaint for corruption related to the attribution of Qatar of world football match of 2022, which has already been investigated by the French Justice.
The anti-corruption association Anticor has filed this complaint, which is also directed against who is the right hand of Sarkozythe former minister Claude Guéantagainst a publicist, who is the source of the current revelations, and against the former prime minister of Qatar Hamad ben Jassem al-Thani.
The basis of this method is the statements of the publicist François de La Brossewho worked for free on Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign and during his early years at the Élysée.
After leaving power, his advertising company had financial problems and he went to Sarkozy to help you overcome them.
The then French president, by giantput him in touch with Qatari companies that, according to the NGO that signed the complaint, owed him money, after the intervention of Sarkozy so that the country of Persian Gulf the World Cup can be arranged.
La Brosse told the newspaper Le Monde that he was contacted by the Qatari company Q.Media, with whom he signed a pre-contract but only after he threatened Sarkozy to expose his unpaid work, which could affect the candidate’s campaign accounts.
The publicist assured that, at the last moment, the president abandoned him.
This new complaint is added to the investigation opened by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office in 2019 regarding the attribution of the World Cup to Qatar and, in particular, Sarkozy’s intervention.
In the eyes of Justice is the lunch organized in November 2010 at the Elysée by the president with the head of UEFA, Michel Platiniand the then crown prince and current emir of Qatar, Tamim Al Thani.
Researchers suspect that the intervention of Sarkozy in favor of Qatar He changed the opinion of the influential Platini, which led to a change in the UEFA vote, which was initially directed at the United States, to link the competition to Qatar.
Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating possible crimes of “corruption” and “laundering”.
Source: La Verdad
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