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LONDON — Swiss prosecutors on Thursday charged Nasser al-Khelaifi, a Qatari businessman who is one of the most prominent figures in soccer, with inciting a former secretary general at FIFA to break the law and the official, Jérôme Valcke, with accepting bribes and criminal mismanagement.
The charges came more than two years after the Swiss authorities announced they had begun an investigation into lucrative World Cup television rights that were secured by BeIN, the Qatar-based broadcaster run by al-Khelaifi. The television broadcaster has been one of the world’s biggest buyers of sports content for much of the past decade.