French prosecutors investigating Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid have brought charges of corruption against the disgraced former vice-president of FIFA, Reynald Temarii (55) of Tahiti.
The charge, the first to rise out of the years-long examination, is for detached defilement and was affirmed by France’s monetary violations investigators (PNF).
Temarii served as the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)’s president in the past.
Be that as it may, he was constrained out in 2010 in the wake of being ensnared in a vote-selling embarrassment during a secret paper sting before the dubious granting to Qatar of last year’s football masterpiece.
On November 17, 2010, FIFA imposed a one-year ban on Temarii, keeping him out of the infamous vote on December 2 at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters.
The OFC were qualified for sort out somebody to cast a ballot in his place, with the first of their votes assigned for Australia then, at that point, in the event that important to the US, the top choices for the 2022 organizing rights over Qatar.
However, Temarii filed an appeal against his suspension on November 30 after initially accepting it.
His allure, according to FIFA rules, denied the OFC of a decision on December second, with Qatar at last prevailing upon the voting form the USA 14-8.
The 2019 French investigation was particularly interested in a meeting that took place on November 23, 2010, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, between then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Qatari prince Tamim ben Hamad al-Thani, who became Emir in 2013, and then-UEFA president Michel Platini, who later voted for Qatar. The meeting took place just over a week before the vote.
In 2015, Temarii received a separate eight-year ban for receiving 300,000 euros to pay for his 2010 appeal from former FIFA executive member Mohamed bin Hammam, a crucial player in securing the World Cup for Qatar.
Container Hammam was restricted for life from football in 2012.
