Former FIFA Vice President Reynald Tamari, a consultant and a lawyer, has been placed on condition that witnesses help in the investigation in Paris over the attribution of the Qatar World Cup, according to a source close to the case confirming a report from the newspaper. to liberate.
Summoned for indictment, the former Tahitian OFC president was summoned and placed under intermediate co-witness status in November 2021.
The same clause, less incriminating than the indictment, was granted in July to Tamari’s attorney, Geraldine Lesieur, and counsel, Jean-Charles Brisard.
In this branch of the judicial investigation that opened in 2019 at the Paris Court, the investigating judge was interested in the role De Tamari, her lawyer, and Brisard in the days before the host country was named.
Banned for a year by FIFA on 17 November 2010 for violating the Code of Ethics after Sunday Times articles, Reynald Tamari was unable to take his seat on the Executive Committee on 2 December for a vote.
The OFC had to appoint a replacement that would have given the vote to Australia and then to the United StatesFrom the second round of voting.
However, Temarii resumed his suspension on the night of 30 November to 1 December after previously declaring his acceptance of the punishment.
By appeal, in accordance with FIFA statutes, the OFC was denied a representative during the vote, and thus deprived the United States of the vote. On December 2, 2010, Qatar beat the United States, which started as a favorite.
Investigations revealed that Tamari’s defense costs could have been financed by the influential Qatari Mohammed bin Hamman. This amount (€300,000) was paid to Brisard’s company, JCB Consulting, by way of a “prior to date” agreement.
“This money was not in any way connected with the World Cup,” Tamari told AFP during his consultation session.
Temarii had assigned Brisard, through his lawyer Lesieur, to manage his defense financially and Check the terms of drafting articles Sunday times.
Tamari said he decided to appeal, reading a note from Brisard privately telling him that the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office was planning a corruption prosecution as a result of the Sunday Times article, which was false. and that the absence of an appeal could be interpreted as an admission of guilt.
His lawyers and former colleagues Brissard dismissed any desire for manipulation. No charges have been brought in the judicial investigation into the attribution of the 2022 World Cupaccording to the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office.
Group Stage – Qatar 2022
- Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal and the Netherlands.
- group b: England, Iran, United States, Wales.
- Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Poland.
- Group D: France, Australia, Denmark and Tunisia.
- Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany and Japan.
- Sixth group: Belgium, Canada, Morocco and Croatia.
- Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon.
- Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay and South Korea.
With information from Agence France-Presse.
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