The Swiss Ministry of Justice announced Thursday the indictment of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi for "instigation to unfair management" in the corruption case which involves Jérôme Valcke, the former No. 2 of Fifa. The man who is also CEO of BeIN Media (BeIN Sport) and president of Qatar Sports Investment (QSI) is no longer prosecuted in the game on suspicion of "active and passive corruption" in the context of the allocation of media rights for the Cups. 2026 and 2030. A decision following the withdrawal of the complaint from Fifa after an "amicable agreement" with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi without the Swiss justice knowing the content.
The British daily The Times said this Friday that the Parisian president had in fact agreed to pay more than one million Swiss francs (950,000 €) for the International Federation to withdraw his criminal complaint. A decision that was made in January.