Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter reaffirmed on Tuesday that there was political interference in the decision to grant the right to host the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, rejecting US judicial charges of receiving bribes to vote for Russia and Qatar in the race to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup.
There was a noble agreement in the FIFA Executive Committee, the 2018 World Cup for Russia and the World Cup 2022 for the United States, Blatter, who held the FIFA presidency for 17 years until 2015 and was suspended until 2022, told France Press.
He continued: There has been political interference to grant the right to host the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, that's all. In this type of a decision, high-level political interference takes place.
According to his account of the facts, Blatter considers that the failure to assign the agreement to host the World Cup 2022 to the United States is due to the interference of the French government during the era of former President Nicolas Sarkozy during a lunch with his compatriot Michel Platini, who was then a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.
Platini, the former star of the Duke who admitted to voting for Qatar, has always said that he changed his mind even before this lunch.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged former International Federation officials, especially from South America, with receiving bribes to vote for Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup.
The accusation, although it contains little information about the source of the payments, revealed that former Confederation President Trinidad and Tobago Jack Warner who served as FIFA Vice President received a bribe of five million dollars in order to vote for Russia, noting that there was someone who played the role of the linker, describing it To a consultant close to the FIFA president at the time, that is Blatter.
The Swiss replied: It was possible that Hungarian Peter Hargitay was the intended one who was a former adviser to Blatter but I was not asking any counselor to intervene and I do not think he could have written that.
For its part, the International Federation of the game confirmed in a statement that it supports all investigations related to criminal violations and that it will continue to cooperate with the judicial authorities.
FIFA, who stated that he is in the victim position regarding the procedures laid down by the American judiciary, added that he is closely following these investigations and developments in the United States and all over the world.
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