In the investigation opened in Paris on the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, the former vice-president of Fifa, the Tahitian Reynald Temarii is indicted for "passive private corruption" A first indictment that could lead others in the sprawling Qatargate file. At the heart of the suspicions is a lunch held in 2010 between Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the Republic, Michel Platini and two senior Qatari leaders.
Mohamed Bin Hammam, the Qatari billionaire who chaired the Asian Confederation, suspected of being the linchpin of this gigantic corruption file.