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Michel Platini released from custody

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epa07656939 Former UEFA president Michel Platini leaves the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police after Platini was arrested for questioning, in Nanterre, near Paris, France, 18 June 2019. Platini has been arrested in a corruption probe of the vote that gave the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. EPA-EFE/Julien de Rosa

The banned ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini was released from custody today after hours of questioning in connection with a criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The French football legend who led European football’s governing body from 2007 to 2015 was held yesterday by French anti-corruption police investigating alleged corruption in the 2010 vote to award the competition to the gas-rich Gulf state.

He denied wrongdoing and a statement from his representatives said the facts of the case were “unknown to him.”

Via AFP /Euronews / Gulf News 

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