FIFA ethics committee
investigator Michael Garcia has
completed his probe into the
controversial bidding process for
the 2018 and 2022 World Cups,
awarded to Russia and Qatar
respectively, and handed in a
350-page report.
The report, which has not been
made public, will be submitted to
the ethics committee’s
adjudicatory chamber, headed by
German judge Hans-Joachim
Eckert, to decide on whether any
wrongdoing was committed,
soccer’s governing body said on
Friday.
FIFA said they could not
comment on when Eckert might
reach his decision.
Fifa president Joseph Blatter AFP
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During the course of the year-
long investigation, Garcia and his
deputy Cornel Borbely
interviewed “more than 75
witnesses and compiled a record
that, in addition to audio
recordings from interviews,
includes more than 200,000
pages of relevant material,” FIFA
said.
“The report sets forth detailed
factual findings; reaches
conclusions concerning further
action with respect to certain
individuals; identifies issues to
be referred to other FIFA
committees; and makes
recommendations for future
bidding processes.”
The hosting rights for the two
tournaments were awarded
simultaneously by FIFA’s
executive committee in Zurich in
2010 after a turbulent campaign.
Spain/Portugal, Belgium/
Netherlands and England had
also been bidding for 2018 while
United States, Australia, South
Korea and Japan had bid for
2022.
The executive committee which
took the decision was reduced to
22 members instead of the usual
24 after two of them were
suspended by the ethics
committee one month before the
vote.
Nigerian Amos Adamu was
banned for breaches of five
articles of FIFA’s ethics code
including one on bribery and
Reynald Temarii of Tahiti for
breaching articles on general
conduct and loyalty.
The case followed allegations by
The Sunday Times that the pair
offered to sell their votes to
undercover reporters posing as
lobbyists for an American
consortium.
FIFA said that all bidding nations
were interviewed during the
investigation.
Borbely took responsibility
obtaining information from the
U.S and Russia as Garcia is a
national of the former and was
barred from visiting the latter.
Shortly before this year’s World
Cup in Brazil, the Sunday Times
reported that some of the
“millions of documents” it had
seen linked payments by former
FIFA executive committee
member Mohamed Bin Hammam
to officials to win backing for
Qatar’s World Cup bid.
Bin Hammam has not
commented on his involvement
since he was banned for life
from soccer in 2012 and Qatar
has denied all allegations of
corruption.
Qatar has also been criticised for
its alleged treatment of migrant
workers in the construction
industry.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/fifa-completes-probe-2018-2022-world-cup/

i know fifa wont take it away

So what?

So what? Russia and Qatar will still host dier WC.