PARIS – Bad news for Nasser al-Khelaifipresident of the Paris Saint Germain: three investigating judges (three prosecutors, to put it in Italian) were appointed to investigate it on the basis of heavy charges: kidnapping, kidnapping and torturewhich would have been suffered by a French-Algerian lobbyist, Tayeb Benabderrahmane. This is because the Benabderrahmane would have been in possession of sensitive documents relating to a corruption case on the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
The turning point
The story has been known for a few months, since Benabderrahmane had reported the matter. Today’s novelty is the opening of a file and the corresponding investigation by the Paris judiciary. According to reports The Team: “A judicial inquiry was opened at the end of January, a judicial source declared, confirming a report by France Inter, and three investigating judges were appointed”.
The facts according to who accuses
“We are very happy that the true file of this story is finally being investigated by the French justice system”the lawyers by Benabderrahmane, Romain Ruiz and Gabriel Vejnar. In the complaint, their client declares his arrest in January 2020 in Qatar, where he had moved three months earlier to carry out lobbying activities. He claims he was imprisoned for six months and torturedthen placed under house arrest and finally allowed out in November of the same year, after signing a confidentiality agreement in which he pledged not to disclose “sensitive” documents on PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi.
Burning documents
Among these documents were including information contained in a telephone owned by him, related to the organization of World Cup in Qatar o all’assignment of television rights. Al-Khelaifi’s lawyers declined to comment, saying they were bound by professional secrecy. The possession of these documents, considered incriminating, was revealed when Benabderrahmane and two former police officers were indicted in a separate judicial investigation for influence trading and corruption around the PSG.
