Qatar responds to dark $2.3m World Cup accusation

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A longstanding whistleblower allegation that Qatar offered currency to voters during its winning bid to big the World Cup has been denied again by officials successful a Netflix documentary.

The four-part amusement “FIFA Uncovered” straight enactment the question to cardinal Qatari authoritative Hassan Al-Thawadi — the bid run person successful 2010, present heading the World Cup organising committee — of whether helium took portion successful offering $2.3 cardinal to each of 3 FIFA voters from Africa.

Whistleblower Phaedra Almajid has claimed for much than a decennary she was successful the country with Al-Thawadi astatine a edifice successful Angola successful January 2010 erstwhile wealth was offered to the 3 men, who were among 24 voters acceptable to prime the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts aboriginal that year.

“My reaction, particularly connected the Phaedra situation, it’s frustration,” Al-Thawadi told interviewers for the Netflix show. “They are inherently mendacious and determination are facts connected the crushed that beryllium they are false.”

Almajid’s claims added to a unreality of suspected wrongdoing hanging implicit Qatar agelong aft it won the ballot by FIFA’s enforcement committee successful December 2010. Qatar's bid squad has ever insisted it followed run rules acceptable by FIFA.

The alleged offers to African voters were elaborate successful May 2011 by a British parliamentary proceeding which received grounds from The Sunday Times newspaper. They implicated, and were denied by, Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma positive a 3rd man, Amos Adamu, who were suspended by FIFA for fiscal misconduct earlier the World Cup votes.

Almajid was successful Angola moving connected the bid’s planetary media relations but was fired soon after.

She aboriginal testified to a FIFA-appointed probe of the 2018-2022 bidders led by Michael Garcia, a erstwhile U.S. Attorney successful New York and present a justice successful authorities courts.

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Garcia’s study successful 2014, which FIFA did not people successful afloat until 2017, dismissed Almajid’s evidence. It concluded she was incorrect astir different Qatari bid authoritative witnessing the offers and suggested she had altered her evidence.

Almajid repeated her claims to “FIFA Uncovered” and said the currency was offered to Africans’ nationalist shot bodies and not the men personally.

Netflix is airing the FIFA programme little than 2 weeks earlier the World Cup starts connected November 20.

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