Fifa in turmoil over Qatar World Cup bid - FT.com
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The conclusions stem from an investigation by US lawyer Michael J. Garcia into corruption allegations surrounding the 2010 vote by Fifa’s executive committee to choose the two tournaments’ hosts. But publication of a 42-page summary prompted Mr Garcia, who chairs Fifa’s investigatory chamber, to issue an explosive statement distancing himself from the findings.
The summary, he said, “contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions” he had compiled in his own report. He added that he would appeal against the findings to the Fifa appeal committee.
His dramatic intervention made a mockery of Fifa’s attempt to lay to rest once and for all the latest allegations of skulduggery that have further tarnished its reputation, which has long been in question.
