News | World 2022: Nasser Al-Khelaïfi accused of destroying compromising documents
Did the head of PSG want to destroy the kompromats about Qatar getting the World Cup, which starts this Sunday? That’s what several former relatives claim in a high-profile case “general manipulation” By Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s spokesperson.
The story, which combines accusations of private espionage, blackmail and torture, comes to light in late September when three men were charged in Paris, notably with influence peddling and corruption.
Among them, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, a French-Algerian lobbyist, and Malik Nait-Liman, a former intelligence officer, were hired as support referees at PSG in 2018. They are suspected of passing confidential information about certain individuals from police files, particularly to a Paris football club.
But in this case, there is another case: Tayeb Benabderrahmane says that he was arrested in January 2020 in Qatar, where he settled three months ago for lobbying.
He says he was imprisoned for six months, tortured, then placed under house arrest and finally released in November of that year after agreeing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.sensitive“About Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
Telephone conversations
What were these documents? Did he try to blackmail the boss of PSG?
According to a September 29 report by the General Directorate of Internal Security and the National Police Inspectorate, discovered by Liberation and consulted by AFP, it may be part of the intimate videos of the PSG boss with his mistress; on the other hand, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s telephone conversations with FIFA’s Jerome Valcke and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani regarding the organization of the Qatar World Cup or allocation of television rights. .
BeIn Media Group President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Jerome Valcke have been put on trial in Switzerland for conspiring behind FIFA in the 2026 and 2030 World Cup television rights case. They were acquitted. Appeal in October 2020, then again in June 2022.
How could Tayeb Benabderrahmane have these documents?
Hicham Karmoussi, a Moroccan butler of 20 years to Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who was fired in June 2020, asked him in 2018 to leave a mobile phone, hard drive and USB in a safe place in Algeria, the lobbyist under police custody said. A key that contains information about the boss of the PSG. He also gave her the data extract from the latter’s phone.
Hicham Karmoussi told Mediapart on Friday that he helped Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, who was concerned about investigations targeting him in France and Switzerland.cleaning” Before a possible search in his apartment in Paris, he kept certain items in his hand. He says he gave them “phone onlyTo Tayeb Benabderrahmane.
Hicham Karmoussi, whose home was searched on October 20, was heard as a witness on Tuesday by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (Oclciff), which is responsible for investigating the conditions for awarding the Mondial-2022 prize.
“Hicham Karmoussi has worked for Mr. Al-Khelaifi for many years and it makes sense that the justice would want to hear him as a witness.“, his lawyer Antoine Ory told AFP.
Otherwise,”he expects to be heard by a judicial authority soon“According to Vic, within the framework of the judicial investigation in which Tayeb Benabderrahmane and Malik Nait-Lima were charged.
For his part, Tayeb Benabderrahmane filed two civil lawsuits in Paris in August: the first alleging torture, imprisonment and kidnapping, where he denounced his arrest in Qatar, and the second targeting lawyers who worked on extortion and witness tampering. signing the protocol.
At the end of the week, he paid the deposit set by the Dean of Investigating Judges, a prerequisite for the appointment of an investigating judge.
“This general sequence in the investigations to be conducted will reveal the complicated wheels of the political and financial relations between France and Qatar, where Tayeb Benabderrahmane was the victim.“, – evaluated the lawyers in a press release.
“There has never been a clearer example of the total and shameless manipulation of the media – lies and fabrications by individuals who want to distract from the fact that they are being prosecuted for multiple crimes against a number of people.”Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s spokesman responded to AFP.
The heroes of this case”they’ve changed their stories more than they’ve changed their lawyers – and the lies are getting fancier by the week.”sweeps the spokesman. “We will calmly allow the legal process to take its course and in the end the law will prevail.“.
