Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to the awarding of the 2022 soccer World Cup, Justice official says.
Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a judicial official said Tuesday.
Platini, a former France soccer great, was being detained at the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police outside Paris. Claude Gueant, the former secretary general of the Elysee under former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, was also questioned by investigators as part of the probe but was not detained.
Platini's lawyer and adviser did not immediately answer messages from The Associated Press seeking comments.Blatter, who was FIFA president at the time of the vote in 2010, blamed Platini for backing out of a secret"gentleman's agreement" to award the 2022 tournament to the United States. Platini has long insisted that the meeting did not influence his vote for Qatar less than two weeks later.But Blatter claimed in a 2015 interview with the Financial Times that Platini told him ahead of the World Cup vote:"I am no longer in your picture because I have been told by the head of state that we should consider the situation of France."
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