Confidential documents seen by Mediapart and British daily The Guardian suggest that the chief of staff of Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani was involved in negotiating payments that are suspected by a French judicial probe of being used in a corruption plot for the attribution of the World Championships of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It also suggests that Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the chairman and CEO of BeIN Sport media group and president of French football club PSG, played a greater role in the alleged plot than he has hitherto told the French judicial investigation. Yann Philippin reports.
Confidential documents seen by Mediapart and The Guardian raise questions over the personal involvement of the chief of staff to the Gulf state’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, in a suspected corruption plot for the attribution of the 2017 World Championships organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
