The Sunday Times obtained millions of documents that it said showed that Mohamed bin Hammam, a Qatari former Fifa executive committee member, paid £3m in cash and gifts to senior football officials to help secure Qatars bid. The evidence has been passed to Fifas ethics prosecutor, Michael Garcia, a former US attorney in New York, who is due to meet Qatari bid officials in Oman on Monday as part of his investigation into the bidding process. There have been reports that Garcia had no plans to interview Hamman. Goldsmith said the revelations should be thoroughly investigated. After the revelations in the Sunday Times, if he [Garcia] wasnt intending to see Bin Hammam he plainly has to now, he told BBC Radio 4s Today programme. Goldsmith added: If Fifa is to emerge from the scandals, and this isnt the only one – there are other issues – it has to produce a convincing and transparent answer to these allegations, particularly to these hosting decisions. If these allegations are shown to be true, then the hosting decision for Qatar has to be rerun … if it is proved that the decision to give Qatar the World Cup was procured by bribery and improper influence then that decision ought not to stand.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:52:27 +0000
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