The former vice president of FIFA and former head of the Oceania Football Confederation, the Tahitian Reynald Temarii, is the first accused in the French investigation for alleged corruption in the allocation of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
As confirmed this Saturday by the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, charges of “passive private corruption” weigh on Temarii for his actions in 2010 so that the World Cup could be organized in the emirate of the Persian Gulf.
Investigators believe that the former vice president of FIFA received 305,440 euros in a hidden way from Qatari billionaire Mohamed Ben Hammam, also vice president of FIFA and at that time in charge of the Asian Confederation, publishes the evening newspaper Le Monde.
The money was to be used for Temarii to appeal the suspension imposed shortly before the award of the 2022 World Cup by the FIFA ethics committee against him for “disloyalty”, which blocked the appointment of a hostile successor to the Qatari candidacy.
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