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Robert Pires is to be questioned by French police on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into his former club Olympique Marseille.
The troubled French team stand accused of transfer irregularities between 1997 and 1999.
Although Pires moved from Marseille to Highbury after that period, sacked Marseille financial director Pierre Dubition claims that not all of the £6 million Arsenal are thought to have paid for Pires ended up at the club.
Dubiton, whose successor called in the authorities after claiming that OM was "run by the underworld", says that Pires's transfer fee was "inflated" prompting fears that a large part of the money paid by Arsenal to Marseille may have found its way into unscrupulous hands.
French authorities are apparently investigating the activities of several agents in connection with the alleged corruption at the club and have also questioned a number of OM's former players in recent weeks.
And in a sinister development Pires's agent Frederic Dobraje recently told French daily Le Monde that he had been threatened and blackmailed while Pires was at Marseille.
There is no suggestion that either Robert Pires or Arsenal have knowingly been involved in any illegal activity.
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