Qataris paid Fifa official $1.2m after World Cup bid win, documents claim | The Guardian
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The controversial Trinidadian former Fifa executive committee member Jack Warner received $1.2m (£720,000) from a company controlled by former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam in December 2010, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper also alleged that a note from one of Warner’s companies, Jamad, to Bin Hammam’s firm, Kemco, requested $1.2m in payment for work carried out between 2005 and 2010.
It was also claimed that Warner’s two sons and an employee were paid a further $1m by the same Qatari company.
One document referred to in the article was said to have stated that payments were to “offset legal and other expenses”, but a separate letter claimed that more than $1m covered “professional services provided over the period 2005-2010”.
The payment was allegedly made a fortnight after Fifa’s 22-man executive committee voted to award the 2022 tournament to Qatar.
Last March it emerged that the FBI was investigating a series of corruption claims surrounding world football’s governing body and that Warner’s Miami-based son, Daryan, had agreed to be a co-operating witness.
According to the allegations in the Telegraph, payments totalling at least $750,000 were made to Warner’s sons and a further $400,000 was paid to one of his employees.