Qatar 2022: Platini drawn into Fifa World Cup bribe scandal

Claims that Uefa president, who voted for Qatar in 2010, was 'personally lobbied' by Bin Hammam

UEFA President Michel Platini
(Image credit: PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images)

France has become the first European nation to be drawn into the World Cup bribery scandal with allegations that Michel Platini had what the Daily Telegraph describes as a "private discussion" with Mohamed Bin Hammam, the Qatari former Fifa official who allegedly paid millions of pounds to football officials around the world.

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