African サッカー boss 解放する/自由な after 汚職 尋問

By ジーンズ-Francois Rosnoblet and Emmanuel Jarry

MARSEILLE/PARIS, June 7 (Reuters) - French 当局 解放(する)d the 長,率いる of African サッカー's 判決,裁定 団体/死体, Ahmad Ahmad, after several hours' 尋問 as part of a 汚職 調査, a source at the 検察官,検事's office said on Friday.

The 59-year-old 大統領,/社長 of the 連合 of African Football (CAF) was 拘留するd by 当局 at his hotel in Paris on Thursday but 解放(する)d by the 調査/捜査するing 治安判事 in the evening, the source told Reuters.

That left Ahmad, a former 閣僚 大臣 in his 母国 Madagascar, 解放する/自由な to leave フラン. "There's no judicial 支配(する)/統制する or home 拘留,拘置," said the source, who is 跡をつけるing the 事例/患者.

Ahmad was 報告(する)/憶測d to world 治める/統治するing 団体/死体 FIFA's 倫理学 委員会 by then CAF general-長官 Amr Fahmy in March for 申し立てられた/疑わしい 汚職 and いやがらせ. Fahmy was 解雇する/砲火/射撃d.

The 主張s followed a string of スキャンダルs 関係のある to FIFA's practices in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia in 最近の years, which have led to the 起訴,告発 and 刑務所,拘置所ing of 非常に/多数の 上級の football 行政官/管理者s.

The French source said Ahmad was questioned over 告訴,告発s of "active" and "passive" 汚職, money laundering and belonging to a 犯罪の organization.

Neither he nor a lawyer 代表するing him could be reached for comment にもかかわらず 多重の 試みる/企てるs. There was no 即座の 返答 from CAF either.

Ahmad, who is also a 副/悪徳行為-大統領,/社長 of FIFA, had been in Paris for the organization's congress, where its newly re-elected 大統領,/社長 Gianni Infantino said his 会・原則 had finally shed its "有毒な, almost 犯罪の" image.

"ERADICATING WRONGDOING"

In a 声明 on Friday, FIFA requested more 詳細(に述べる)s on Ahmad's 事例/患者 while 説 all 主張s must be 調査/捜査するd.

"As a 事柄 of 予定 過程, everyone has the 権利 to the presumption of innocence, but as the FIFA 大統領,/社長 繰り返し言うd yesterday, FIFA is fully committ ed to eradicating all forms of 悪事を働くこと at any level in football," it said.

"Anyone 設立する to have committed illicit or 違法な 行為/法令/行動するs has no place in football."

A 文書 sent on March 31 by Fahmy to the FIFA 倫理学 委員会 (刑事)被告 Ahmad of ordering his 長官-general to 支払う/賃金 $20,000 賄賂s into accounts of African football 協会 大統領,/社長s. At the time, Ahmad did not 答える/応じる to requests for comment on the 主張s.

FIFA then 開始する,打ち上げるd an 調査 into Ahmad.

The 内部の 文書 also (刑事)被告 Ahmad of 悩ますing four 女性(の) CAF staff, whom it did not 指名する; 侵害する/違反するing 法令s to 増加する Moroccan 代表 within the organization; and over-spending more than $400,000 of CAF money on cars in Egypt and Madagascar, where a 衛星 office was 始める,決める up for him.

The 文書 also (刑事)被告 Ahmad of costing CAF an extra $830,000 by ordering 器具/備品 経由で a French intermediary company called 戦術の Steel, rather than 直接/まっすぐに from 製造業者s.

It was not すぐに (疑いを)晴らす whether the link to 戦術の Steel in フラン was the 原因(となる) of the French 調査.

戦術の Steel, which is based in La Seyne-sur-mer 近づく Marseille, said it had no 即座の comment to make. In April, its 大統領,/社長 Sabine Seillier said 戦術の Steel had won a CAF 契約 legitimately, 従うd with French 法律 and not been 伴う/関わるd in any kickbacks. (報告(する)/憶測ing by ジーンズ-Francois Rosnoblet in Marseille; Emmanuel Jarry and Inti Landauro in Paris; Editing by Luke パン職人 and Andrew Cawthorne)

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