Michel Platini questioned over Qatar 2022 World Cup decision | OneFootball

Former Uefa president Michel Platini is being questioned by police over the decision to award the 2022 Fifa World Cup to Qatar.

According to French outlet Mediapart, the 63-year-old former France international captain attended a police station in a western suburb of Paris on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into corruption surrounding the upcoming 2022 World Cup.

Platini stepped down as president of European football’s governing body in 2016 after he was banned from football for six years. The ban was later reduced to four years following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

His ban expired in March this year but he is now being questioned as part of the case looking into how the 2022 World Cup was controversially awarded to Qatar.

Platini was part of the organising committee for the 1998 World Cup and also joined the Fifa executive committee in 2002.

Mediapart report that Claude Gueant – a former advisor to ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy – is also being questioned by police but has not been arrested.