(CNN) Former UEFA President Michel Platini says he has been left feeling 'hurt' after being detained as part of a corruption investigation over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

Platini, who was taken in for questioning in Paris on Tuesday, is currently serving a four-year ban from soccer that was handed down in 2015, over a $2 million payment he received from world governing body FIFA.

Upon leaving the police station later, Platini, who led UEFA, the sport's European governing body between 2007-2015, told reporters: "I came here freely and they immediately put me in custody ... It hurts, it hurts for everyone I can think of, everything I did, it hurts, it hurts.

"I have always been serene because I feel foreign to any type of business," he added.

"It's an old case, you know, we've explained it, I've always expressed myself in full transparency in all the newspapers, and that's it and it's going on, we're doing investigations, they're looking ... That's it. "

Platini won the 1984 Euros with France.