New revelations of corruption have emerged regarding the Qatar’s controversial bid for hosting the World Cup. According to the British daily The Sunday Times, new evidence suggests that the host country of the World Cup has bribed FIFA in order to get to host the next World Cup.
The Sunday Times claims to hold evidence of the existence of payments of $880 million in total which ensured Qatar’s victory in the vote held in December 2010.
The Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera television channel, is alleged to have made two payments of $400 million and $480 million to Fifa in a secret broadcasting deal. These two transfers are thought to have been made 21 days before the final vote, at the moment when Fifa had just closed its investigation concerning suspicions of corruption.
Qatar secretly slammed down an extraordinary four hundred million dollar offer in television cash on Fifa’s table … just 21 days before the sports body gave the Gulf state its ultimate prize: the 2022 World Cup https://t.co/QCSK92nHaf
— The Sunday Times (@thesundaytimes) March 10, 2019
