Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Corruption Claims

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World Cup 2022 investigation
Qatar’s successful bid to host the world’s greatest sporting activity in the year 2022 has been countered by a lot of criticism. For example, a Norwegian newspaper called the decision as a big joke of all the time in the football history with some commentators expressing their views that Qatar literally stole the world cup. This criticism has attracted interest of many people to scrutinize whether the whole exercise was carried out in a most transparent manner and whether the decision arrived at was the best among the available options. As a result of this interest and curiosity, The Daily Telegraph reported that there are traces of some information that hint to possibilities of occurrence of some irregularities in the selection exercise. Emails and documents alleging to bribery acts have been discovered and thus an investigation by the FIFA ethics committee and FBI, to ascertain the claims, have been launched.
According to the report by the Daily Telegraph, it is revealed that Jack Warner, who was not only one of the most experienced person in the FIFA administration, but also the most influential in the selection committee that declared Qatar the host for 2022 world cup, was involved in bribery acts. The report discloses that Warner was personally paid, through his Jamad Company, an estimated $1.2 million by Kemco Company that is associated with Qatar official Bin Hammam, who is a Qatar national and a former executive member of the FIFA committee. The report also reveals some documents that show Warner’s sons also received $750,000 payment from the same company and his employees too received $400’000 in the same transactions. There are a number of documents with one claiming that the payment is for ...

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...gations surround the 2022 selection bidding process. Without any doubt it can be concluded that the process was flawed and the FIFA due process of carrying out the exercise was greatly violated. In the football industry, world cup is an important event that gathers people from all parts of the world together. Therefore, there is a dear need to ensure that every decision made regarding the same is has been made for the common good of all and not for a few individuals. The cases of corruption reported and ascertained by the various investigations prove that perhaps Qatar did not win the bid in a transparent manner and thus this bid needs to be revoked. Revocation of this bid will continue to build the credibility of FIFA as a world’s football governing body and perhaps prevent such kind of acts in the future. Additionally, there is enough time to call for a fresh bid.

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