Has Al-Khelaïfi paid Fifa as part of an amicable agreement?

Nasser Al-Khelaïfi would have paid Fifa so that the latter withdraws its complaint targeting him for "active corruption" during the allocation of media rights to the 2026 and 2030 Football World Cups for the Middle East and the region. North Africa.

Paris Saint-Germain's president agreed to pay Fifa a substantial sum of money as part of a settlement that led to the world governing body dropping a bribery complaint, according to sources. By @martynziegler https://t.co/ezAOBQDY2o

According to The Times , the president of the PSG would have towards a million Swiss francs (950,000 euros) at the institution as part of an amicable agreement between the two parties, while NAK risked an indictment for active corruption, accused in particular of having made profit the former n ° 2 of Fifa Jérôme Valcke of a luxurious villa in Sardinia estimated at 5 million euros. An agreement denied by the interested party, a spokesman for NAK having assured our colleagues in the World "that no payment has been made in connection with the abandonment of charges"

The man from Doha to Paris welcomed Thursday the drop of part of the charges against him. However, he remains accused of “instigating unfair management” as the boss of the BeIN Media group. "A second accusation" which NAK believes "will be proven to be unfounded," he said in a statement to AFP. The Paris boss has already been indicted in France since May 2019 for "active corruption" in the investigation into the allocation of the 2017 World Athletics Championships in Qatar.

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