“In response to information disseminated by the media in France concerning ongoing investigations against three persons suspected of illegal activity, we categorically confirm that they are unrelated to Mr. Nasser al-Khelaïfi”said My Francis Szpiner and Renaud Semerdjian in a press release.
The name of the Qatari leader, suspected of having participated in a corrupt action of the emirate, during the attribution of the World Cup to his country in 2010, appears in supposedly compromising documents, according to Release. This revived the debate around him two months before the opening of the World Cup, despite his acquittal in the “FIFAgate” affair at the end of June.