FIFAs investigation into the World Cup bids from Russia and Qatar will be
completed by next week, the chief investigator said Monday amid fresh corruption
allegations against the Gulf nation.
Sean Harlow Jersey . The integrity of Qatars
winning bid for the 2022 tournament has been repeatedly questioned since FIFAs
vote four years ago. The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain reported that it had
obtained millions of pieces of evidence detailing irregular payments. Mohamed
bin Hammam, a Qatari former member of FIFAs executive committee, was accused of
giving football officials payments totalling $5 million to build support for the
bid. Despite Bin Hammams high profile role at the time of the bid as head of the
Asian confederation, Qatari World Cup organizers on Sunday insisted that he
"played no official or unofficial role" in the work of the big-spending
committee. By July, FIFAs ethics investigator Michael Garcia, a former U.S.
Attorney in New York, is set to have delivered his verdict on both Qatar and
Russia, host of the 2018 World Cup. "After months of interviewing witnesses and
gathering materials, we intend to complete that phase of our investigation by
June 9, 2014, and to submit a report to the adjudicatory chamber approximately
six weeks thereafter," the investigatory chamber of FIFAs ethics committee said
in a statement. "The report will consider all evidence potentially related to
the bidding process, including evidence collected from prior investigations."
Four members of FIFAs 24-man executive committee were banned or resigned
following allegations of rule-breaking by bidders and favour-seeking made during
bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Garcia was appointed in July 2012 as
FIFAs independent ethics prosecutor. Bin Hammam challenged Sepp Blatter for the
FIFA presidency in June 2011 but withdrew his candidacy days before the vote
after being implicated in trying to bribe Caribbean voters. FIFA expelled Bin
Hammam in 2012.
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the suspension was requested by ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia, making
Beckenbauer the first person to be punished as a result of the case. Beckenbauer
refused "repeated requests for his assistance, including requests that he
provide information during an in-person interview or in response to written
questions provided in both English and German," FIFA said in a statement.
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Switzerland regained the overall World Cup lead with Sundays super-G win in Lake
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