Based on 2017 judicial plays, Mediapart says the ex-number 10 admitted to having received a “Picasso” from the Alicher Ousmanov oligarch. The entourage of the former number 10 ensures the “world” that the latter has two lithographs of the Spanish painter, including one offered in 2016 by the Russian businessman for his 61 years.
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The survey of the French justice on the controversial allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football worlds and 2022 to Russia and Qatar will result in the challenge of round balloon personalities before the opening of the Next World in the gas emirate, organized in November and December? At this stage, no indictment was pronounced as part of the open judicial information, in November 2019, by the National Financial Office (PNF) for “active and passive corruption”, as well as for “concealed and money laundering” “These offenses.
The Mediapart information site tells, Monday, April 4, that the French investigators have polarized in 2017, as part of the preliminary inquiry, on a “painting of Picasso” than Michel Platini would have potentially received from the Russian oligarch Alicher Ousmanov , a close to Vladimir Putin currently targeted by sanctions of the European Union (EU) after the invasion of Ukraine by his country.
Since 2014 and an article from the Sunday Times in 2014, the rumor ran that French, which was at the time President of the Union of European Soccer Soccer Associations (UEFA), would have received such a gift from Russia.
In December 2017, the French investigators simultaneously searched the homes of Michel Platini, Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) and Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône). According to Mediapart, they found only a lithograph of Picasso in Saint-Cloud.
In a telephone listening relayed by Mediapart, the wife of Michel Platini, Christelle, mentioned, during a conversation on December 14, 2017 with his husband, the existence of an “table of Ouchmanov”, “The Picasso at the bottom of Ouchmanov”, in their residence in Cassis. “I think I kept it. You said,” I do not want this thing, “[…] when he had offered it,” said his husband Mrs. Platini.
Mediapart wonders about this element in the context of the grant, in December 2010, the 2018 World Russia. At the time, Mr. Platini had a time leaning for the candidacy of England, before privileging that of Tandemastern Netherlands, and that of Russia, victorious in the urns in the second round. He had previously secured the victory of a European country for the 2018 World Cup, maneuvering to rule out the United States for this edition.
The Platini camp evokes “Two lithographs of Picasso”
According to the entourage of Michel Platini, the ex-number 10 of the Blues has “received two lithographs of Picasso”. “A naked woman”, offered to the ex-star of the lawns, “twenty or twenty-five years ago” by an Italian journalist from La Gagetta Dello Sport, and another, “in June 2016 and therefore after the vote of the 2018 World Assignment “, for Mr. Platini’s 61st anniversary, received from the billionaire Alicher Ousmanov.
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