Supposed purchase of votes for the World-wide of Qatar

Already to finals of January, "France Football" reported, under the name of "Qatargate", irregularities in the process of election of Qatar like headquarters of the World-wide of 2022. "France Football" Involved, even, to the then president of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, that would have gathered with Michel Platini and with the emir of Qatar, now maximum shareholder of the Paris Saint-Germain. The magazine also mentioned the names of Ángel María Villar and Sandro Rosell.

This Sunday, the British newspaper "The Sunday Times" goes much more there and speech, directly, of purchase of votes: Qatar went out chosen with 14 of the 22 votes of the executive committee of the FIFA. The newspaper londinense aims directly to Mohamed bin Hammam, catarí and ancient vice-president of the FIFA. Bin Hammam Would have spent some 4 million euros bribing to leaders of national federations, especially African, so that they headed to favour of Qatar the votes of his representatives in the executive committee.

The leader had been expelled of the FIFA in 2011, after trying contest the presidency to Joseph Blatter and to show that bribed to leaders of the federations of the Caribbean. It gives the case that the FIFA has opened an investigation on the process of election of the headquarters of the World-wide of 2018 and 2022 and that Blatter described publicly of error the granting of a World-wide to Qatar. Political managers of the sport in the United Kingdom already have asked that the vote repeat .

The Committee Organiser of the World-wide of Qatar has denied these indictments and has warned that they will do what was necessary to defend his integrity. In this sense, warned that his lawyers already are working in the subject. In a communiqué made public this Sunday, affirms that "it always acted with the maximum ethical and integrity" and denies any implication of Mohamed ben Hamman in the promotion of his candidature. The organisation of the World-wide of 2022 explains that it cooperates fully with Michel García, manager of the Committee of Ethical of the FIFA, in his investigation.

To the margin of this, the Canadian journalist Declan Hill, the main world-wide specialist in these subjects, has destapado an investigation of the FIFA that reports that several previous friendly parties to the World-wide of the 2010 were organised and controlled by a network of illegal bets with base in Singapore. According to Hill, in an article published in the "New York Times", one of these parties is a South Africa-Guatemala loaded of doubtful decisions. The meeting finish with a 5-0 for the venues, and, few days afterwards, the referee, Ibrahim Chaibou, of Niger, ingresó 100.000 dollars in a South African bank.

The "Times" publishes documents signed by Wilson Raj Perumal, a citizen of Singapore that considers to himself same the buyer of parties bigger of the world. Perumal, acting like manager of a company of organisation of parties, sent several emails in which it suggested to the South African federation the designation of determinate referees for the friendly to contest in South African territory. After being detained and imprisoned in Finland in 2011, for having manipulated parties in this country, in theory, Perumal had accepted to collaborate with the authorities for destapar cases like which has published the "New York Times".