CumbrianRam Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Fifa is facing fresh allegations of corruption over its controversial decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. The Sunday Times has obtained millions of secret documents - emails, letters and bank transfers - which it alleges are proof that the disgraced Qatari football official Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling $5m to football officials in return for their support for the Qatar bid. Bin Hammam was initially banned from football for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery. The allegations centred around bids to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election of that year. However his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment. Bin Hammam then quit football saying he had seen the "very ugly face of football". Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation. In March 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Qatar 2022 and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied the former Fifa vice-president actively lobbied on their behalf in the run-up to the vote in December 2010. But, according to emails obtained by the Sunday Times and seen by the BBC, it is now clear that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision. The documents also show how Bin Hammam was making payments direct to football officials in Africa to allegedly buy their support for Qatar in the contest. Qatar strongly deny any wrongdoing and insist that Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting the bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign. When approached by the Sunday Times to respond to their claims, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf. Although the vast majority of the officials did not have a vote, the Sunday Times alleges Bin Hammam's strategy was to win a groundswell of support for the Qatari bid which would then influence the four African Fifa executive committee members who were able to take part in the election. The Sunday Times also alleges that it has documents which prove Bin Hammam paid 305,000 Euros (£250,000) to cover the legal expenses of another former Fifa executive committee member from Oceania, Reynald Temarii. Temarii, from Tahiti, was unable to vote in the contest as he had already been suspended by Fifa after he was caught out by a Sunday Times sting asking bogus American bid officials for money in return for his support. But the paper now alleges that Bin Hammam provided him with financial assistance to allow him to appeal against the Fifa suspension, delaying his removal from the executive committee and blocking his deputy David Chung from voting in the 2022 election. The paper claims that had Chung been allowed to vote he would have supported Qatar's rivals Australia. Instead there was no representative from Oceania allowed to vote, a decision which may have influenced the outcome in Qatar's favour. The paper also makes fresh allegations about the relationship between Bin Hammam and his disgraced Fifa ally Jack Warner, from Trinidad. Sepp Blatter & Fifa World Cup 2022 Qatar was announced as the 2022 World Cup host in December 2010 Although Warner was forced to resign as a Fifa vice-president in 2011, after it was proved he helped Bin Hammam bribe Caribbean football officials in return for their support in his bid to oust the long-standing Fifa president Sepp Blatter, the paper says it has evidence which shows more than $1.6m was paid by Bin Hammam to Warner, including $450,000 in the period before the vote. The new allegations will place Fifa under fresh pressure to re-run the vote for the 2022 World Cup, which was held in conjunction with the vote for the 2018 tournament, in which England were eliminated in the first round with just two votes. Fifa's chief investigator Michael Garcia is already conducting a long-running inquiry into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing during the 2018/22 decisions. He is due to meet senior officials from the Qatar 2022 organising committee in Oman on Monday. But that meeting may now have to be postponed in light of the Sunday Times revelations which have raised important new questions about the link between Bin Hammam and the successful Qatari World Cup campaign. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27652181 Not really a shock, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Maybe FIFA are leaking stuff so they can say the vote was rigged and give it someone sensible, with infrastructure in place already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 No surprises there at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuff264 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Maybe FIFA are leaking stuff so they can say the vote was rigged and give it someone sensible, with infrastructure in place already. I hope this is true, will probably go to Australia if they do change it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsy1884 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Almost half of the FIFA representatives who voted for the 2018 and 2022 WCs have now left FIFA under various circumstances. Sinking Ship? If it was up to me I would disband FIFA altogether but thats another debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 That Jack Warner chappie (him that wanted a knighthood for his vote for our campaign) is alledged to have received almost a million quid in sweeteners, that must have been some sized fookin' brown envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 That Jack Warner chappie (him that wanted a knighthood for his vote for our campaign) is alledged to have received almost a million quid in sweeteners, that must have been some sized fookin' brown envelope. this doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth does it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 No but it boils my piss that these fookers travel everywhere first class, stay at top hotels, eat and drink the finest these hotels can offer, get a decent salary and are still on the make. This country gave the world it's best olympics for years yet our world cup bid (in my opinion) wasn't judged on merit. Grease the right palms and you've got the tournament, it's wrong. Football and beer go together like a nice Jalfresi and a keema naan and what do FIFA do ? Give it to a country that doesn't have ale. Madness I tell ya, madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 What a surprise there is corruption in football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardifframs Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Well I never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Matter of time before this gets messy, hopefully jail time for Blatter and co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimbeard Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 It's just the Arab way of doing business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewetube Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Fifa's chief investigator Michael Garcia is already conducting a long-running inquiry into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing during the 2018/22 decisions. He is due to meet senior officials from the Qatar 2022 organising committee in Oman on Monday. Oh great so Fifa's investigating Fifa's potential wrong-doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Cant see what the problem is. I hear they've passed the assessment process to hold the Winter Olympics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needles Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 It's only gone so long because of the sheer impenetrable scale of the bullshit required to sell the idea that Qatar...******* Qatar...could possibly win the world cup by any reasonable set of criteria. Blatant epic scale corruption, which they only thought they could blag off because they pretty well got away with all the merely massive corruption they've blagged off before. *******. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale The Ram Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Read somewhere that if the bid for 2022 is re-voted then so would the world cup 2018 bid. This could mean that England can go forward again as candidates, and we could be likely candidates as we were lied to in the original bid for the 2018 world cup as Blatter and co told Mr. Cameron, Prince William and Beckham that they would vote for England, but only 2 executives voted in our favour. The bid for 2018 will have to be redone if Qatar are found of any wrongdoing as they were voted in unison (apparently one of FIFAs strange laws ) Anyway, lets hope FIFA get their act together so we can have a Brazil and England world cup one after the other, the true homes of football. P.S. Lets hope the IPro is selected if football comes home in 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Football and beer go together like a nice Jalfresi and a keema naan and what do FIFA do ? Give it to a country that doesn't have ale. Madness I tell ya, madness. There is plenty of booz in Qatar, in all the hotels and sports bars/clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 It's just the Arab way of doing business. I don't know why anyone in their right mind would like this racist comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 For this reason alone, Qatar shouldn't get the WC: http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/qatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I don't know why anyone in their right mind would like this racist comment. I think its more a dig at gumps and there weekly trip to the court for yet another winding up notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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