The secret payments that helped Qatar to win the World Cup bid are revealed for the first time this weekend in a bombshell cache of millions of documents leaked to The Sunday Times.
The files expose how Qatar’s astonishing victory in the race to secure the right to host the 2022 tournament was sealed by a covert campaign by Mohamed bin Hammam, the country’s top football official.
Plot to buy the World Cup
Huge email cache reveals secrets of Qatar’s shock victory
by Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/fifa/article1417325.ece
The Fifa files: the documents
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/fifa/article1417206.ece
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A lesson in Machiavellian expertise
A request for $50,000
Thin on resources
$100,000 cash for Kuala Lumpur junket
Cash allowances for junket guests
Nike Bags
Flattered by the attention
Pilgrimage funding
We will win
Hospital treatment in Bangkok
Comores transfer
Brotherly help
Gratitude of Seedy Kinteh
A request for $232,000
Thanks from the Iron Lady
Payment to Said Belkhayat
Doha junket
Flights and hotel expenses
Invoice request from Ali Al-Thawadi
David Fani’s gratitude
A request for funds from Namibia
Pushing the Qatar bid
Jacques Anouma’s letter
Payment to Seedy Kinteh
George Weah: a friend and brother
Eugene Nagbe cash request
George Weah $50,000 payment
Greetings from Namibia
Ahmed Darw and a promise for help
Hayatou gifts
Samalia payment
Transfer to Bruno Bangoura
Ramadan in Doha
A good chance to win
PWC report
Qatar officials to meet FIFA investigator as corruption claims over 2018 and 2022 World Cups intensify
by Matt Lawton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2014/article-2645571/Qatari-officials-meet-FIFA-investigator-corruption-claims-2018-2022-World-Cups-intensify.html
･ FIFA chief investigator Michael Garcia carrying out independent inquiry
･ No swift conclusion expected, not before 2014 World Cup
･ Sunday Times claims make up allegations
･ Greg Dyke admits if evidence is true an election re-run may be needed
Insider spills beans on World Cup corruption claim: We knew people had been got to
by Michael Warner
Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/insider-spills-beans-on-world-cup-corruption-claim-we-knew-people-had-been-got-to/story-fni2u98u-1226941974755
Qatar World Cup corruption, worker deaths a criminal combination
by Gregg Doyel
http://www.cbssports.com/general/writer/gregg-doyel/24578542/qatar-world-cup-corruption-worker-deaths-a-criminal-combination
Voted for Qatar
Jack Warner, Trinidad*
Mohamed Bin Hammam, Qatar*
Worawi Makudi, Thailand
Issa Hayatou, Cameroon
Nicolás Leoz, Paraguay*
Ricardo Teixeira, Brazil*
Michel Platini, France
Jacques Anouma, Ivory Coast
Marios Lefkaritis, Cyprus
Angel María Villa Llona, Spain
Julio Grondona, Argentina