PSG chairman Nasser al-Khelaifi backed out of deal after indictmentsDetails advance up during trial of former football officials in New YorkNasser al-Khelaifi,the chairman of a powerful Qatari sports investment company that owns Paris Saint-Germain, was in secretive negotiations to capture over a company accused of paying football officials millions of dollars in bribes, or a federal court in New York heard on Tuesday. The claim was made by Santiago Pena,a former financial executive at the Argentinian marketing company Full Play, as part of testimony in the trial of three former South American football officials accused on multiple bribery counts. Pena is a star US government witness in the sprawling investigation into corruption at Fifa, and the sport’s governing body. He has laid out detailed evidence that Full Play paid multimillion dollar bribes to a group of football officials in exchange for the rights to regional competitions and World Cup qualifiers. Related: Fifa’s World Cup debacle isnt just approximately money – there’s horror and death too | Barney Ronay Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com