• Michel Platini, Uefa’s former president, has not been spoken to
French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into potential corruption relating to Fifa’s vote for Russia and Qatar to host respectively the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, sources close to the investigation have confirmed.
Investigators are understood to have interviewed Sepp Blatter, who was Fifa president at the time of the profoundly controversial December 2010 vote by a majority of the executive committee. Michel Platini, the former Uefa president whose decision to cast his vote for Qatar was crucial to the Gulf state winning a majority vote, has not been interviewed by investigators, the sources said.
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