Soccer Football - Ligue 1 - Guingamp vs Paris St Germain - Guingamp, France - August 13, 2017 Chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi before the match REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
BERN (Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors on Wednesday began interviewing Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the chief executive of Qatar's beIN media, as part of a criminal investigation into World Cup broadcasting deals.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Oct. 12 that it suspected that FIFA's banned former Secretary General Jerome Valcke had accepted "undue advantages" from Al-Khelaifi in connection with the award of media rights for the 2026 and 2030 competitions.
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