The World-wide of 2018 and 2022, under suspicion

The FIFA has presented this Tuesday a querella criminal in Switzerland by possible irregular behaviours in the adjudication of the World-wide of football of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022

24 hours after closing the investigations, the maximum organism of the world-wide football considers that the report of his main researcher, Michael J. Garcia, yes presents sufficient indications to ask to the ordinary justice an investigation. "Apparently, it suspects in particular that in determinate cases did transfers of capitals related with Switzerland, what needs an investigation by part of the Swiss judicial authorities", added the FIFA. The federation, that chairs Joseph Blatter, indicated that "in comparison to the organs of the FIFA, the judicial organs of the State have the possibility to carry out pesquisas with the help of coercive measures of penal order".

The report of Michael J. García reflects activities of the teams that defended the candidatures for the 2018 and 2022 to attract the vote, like the delivery of gifts to people linked to the FIFA, some of them already sanctioned for breaking the ethical code. The same García disagreed of the conclusions of Eckert, when considering that they contain "numerous, incomplete and erroneous reproductions of the facts", and announced his intention to present a resource.