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| PSG boss Al-Khelaifi charged with athletics corruption | PSG boss Al-Khelaifi charged with athletics corruption |
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| A French judge has charged the president of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, with corruption over Qatar's bid to host the world athletics championships. | A French judge has charged the president of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, with corruption over Qatar's bid to host the world athletics championships. |
| Judicial sources quoted by AFP news agency said the case focused on bidding for this year's championships in Doha. | Judicial sources quoted by AFP news agency said the case focused on bidding for this year's championships in Doha. |
| Mr Khelaifi, who is also the boss of Qatari TV channel BeIn Sports, has been under investigation since March. | Mr Khelaifi, who is also the boss of Qatari TV channel BeIn Sports, has been under investigation since March. |
| Two payments totalling $3.5m (£2.8m), made in 2011, are under scrutiny. | Two payments totalling $3.5m (£2.8m), made in 2011, are under scrutiny. |
| Qatar was in the bidding process to host the championships in 2017 - won by London - and 2019, which it won. | |
| It is alleged that the payments were made by Oryx Qatar Sports Investment - a firm jointly owned by Nasser Al-Khelaifi and his brother Khalid - to a firm run by the son of Lamine Diack, ex-president of the IAAF, the world athletics governing body. | |
| Another BeIn Sports executive, Yousef Al-Obaidly, is also under investigation in France over the awarding of the 2019 championships to Qatar. He is a PSG board member. | |
| PSG won the French top league (Ligue 1) this season. | |
| The French term "mis en examen" - usually rendered as "charged" in English - does not automatically trigger a trial, but means that prosecutors strongly suspect wrongdoing. |