Banned ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini released from custody after hours of questioning in connection with a criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar
Ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini talks to the media before leaving the Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes after being arrested in connection with a criminal investigation into the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, in Nanterre, west of Paris in the early hours of June 19, 2019.
He denied wrongdoing and a statement from his representatives said the facts of the case were "unknown to him." "It was long but considering the number of questions, it could only be long, since I was asked about Euro 2016, the World Cup in Russia, the World Cup in Qatar, Fifa," he told reporters. According to Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president at the time, Qatar won hosting rights as a result of a deal with France, derailing FIFA's own "diplomatic arrangement" whereby hosting rights would have gone to Russia in 2018 and then to the United States four years later.
Platini's representatives said in a statement: "He has done absolutely nothing wrong and affirms that he is totally unrelated to the facts which are unknown to him."Lawyer Bourdon denied that the three-time Ballon d'Or winner had been placed under arrest by the police, as first reported, saying that he had been questioned "as a witness".
Platini led UEFA until 2015 when he was banned from football for four years for ethics violations including receiving a $2 million payment from Blatter, who was suspended for six years.
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