What will be the outcome of “Qatargate”, this myriad of judicial investigations on the attribution to Qatar of the 2022 Football World Cup? Nearly fifteen years after the controversial designation of the Emirate, in 2010, by voting members of the Executive Committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA), the public prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation (MPC) announces to World having suspended, “As it is”the criminal procedure opened in March 2015, against unknown, for “suspicion of irregularities committed during the attributions” of the 2018 and 2022 Worlds, respectively in Russia and Qatar.
According to the MPC, the “Suspension” of this investigation carried out for “unfair management” and “suspicion of money laundering through banking relations in Switzerland” ” is due to the fact that the Department of Justice of Justice and the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office both conduct criminal procedures on the facts that are the subject of the MPC procedure open against unknown in March 2015. ”
“A double or multiple pursuit of the same facts by different states on a global scale is ineffective and counterproductive, which is why the MPC wishes to wait for the outcome of these procedures in the United States and France”explains the Swiss prosecution. The MPC specifies that this “Suspended criminal procedure is not closed. It can be reopened at any time if the reason for the suspension has disappeared. »»
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