MILLIONS ON SCHOOL FEES, MEDICAL COSTS AND CARS
Among the alleged payments made by Mohammed bin Hammam were:
£31,500 to Fadoul Houssein, of the Djibouti FA, for an ‘expensive course of medical treatment for his general secretary’ and an all-expenses luxury trip to Saudi Arabia.
£36,000 for a ‘car to travel to football projects’ for ex-Gambian FA boss Seedy Kinteh.
£480,000 to the Ivory Coast FA as part of a Fifa development scheme.
£120,000 in cash to 25 delegates flown to Kuala Lumpur to discuss the bid in 2008.
£30,000 to Sao Tome FA president Manuel Dende, who asked for £138,000 for ‘football pitches’ to be paid into his personal account.
£30,000 for ‘school fees’ for Liberian-born former Man City striker George Weah – Fifa’s world player of the year in 1995.
£48,000 to Zambian FA president Kalusha Bwalya for ‘FA and personal expenditure’.£31,500 to Fadoul Houssein, of the Djibouti FA, for an ‘expensive course of medical treatment for his general secretary’ and an all-expenses luxury trip to Saudi Arabia.
£36,000 for a ‘car to travel to football projects’ for ex-Gambian FA boss Seedy Kinteh.
£480,000 to the Ivory Coast FA as part of a Fifa development scheme.
£120,000 in cash to 25 delegates flown to Kuala Lumpur to discuss the bid in 2008.
£30,000 to Sao Tome FA president Manuel Dende, who asked for £138,000 for ‘football pitches’ to be paid into his personal account.
Former Asian Football Confederation President Mohammed Bin Hammam is alleged to have paid out £3 million in bribes to football officials to secure support for the 2022 Qatar world cup bid
Pressure was mounting last night for Qatar to be stripped of its status as 2022 World Cup host in the wake of fresh corruption claims.
Emails and account details allegedly reveal how a senior official ‘bought’ support for the Gulf state’s successful campaign to stage the tournament.
Up to £3million from secret slush funds was reportedly used to bribe officials by Mohamed bin Hammam – a disgraced former vice president of football’s governing body Fifa.
According to the Sunday Times, payments of up to £120,000 were made to African football bosses who held sway over the continent’s voting process.
Contrary to Fifa’s strict bribery rules, Mr Bin Hammam staged hospitality junkets across Africa and Asia, meeting delegates privately and handing out Nike holdalls full of luxury gifts and £250,000 in cash to get backing for Qatar’s bid.
Yesterday there were calls for the 2022 World Cup bid to be re-run and for Fifa president Sepp Blatter to resign.
Fifa’s decision to award the world’s biggest sporting tournament to the tiny oil-rich desert state has been controversial from the word go.
As well as health fears for footballers over the 50C summertime heat, reports say 1,200 migrant workers have died during an £120billion frenzy to build eight stadiums and other infrastructure.
Business magnate Mr Bin Hammam was banned from world football in 2011 after being caught bribing voters in a bid to become Fifa president.
The official Qatari bid committee have always insisted that the 65-year-old had nothing to with the campaign to take the World Cup to Doha.
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