PSG President Al-Khelaïfi Faces Second Investigation Over Undeclared Work Claims

Hicham Karmoussi’s complaint, "entrusted to the investigation department of the 16th arrondissement, concerns, according to the terms of the plaintiff, the possible offenses of undeclared work, and exploitation of a vulnerable person," recalls the Paris public prosecutor’s office. The 48-year-old Moroccan said in his complaint that he had started working for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi in the mid-2000s. But from 2011, the year Al-Khelaïfi became president of PSG, he was "full-time" in his service.

Karmoussi specifies that he never had an employment contract and lived at his boss’s where his living and working conditions began to "deteriorate" from 2015. His lawyer, Me Antoine Ory, announced that he had joined the civil party. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi has been the subject of a preliminary investigation for undeclared work since mid-January 2023, RMC Sport reports.

Karmoussi also recounts that in 2017 his boss entrusted him with several confidential documents including "a USB key containing many contracts concluded" with Jérôme Valcke, the former secretary general of FIFA. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s entourage had reacted following this complaint, describing Karmoussi as a "criminal" and accusing him of having "tried to blackmail" Al-Khelaïfi.

The Moroccan has already been heard as a witness in the investigation into the conditions for awarding the 2022 World Cup. He has also joined the civil party in the case of the Franco-Algerian lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane who accuses the PSG boss of having ordered his sequestration in Qatar.