Sepp Blatter has said Fifa will interview a whistleblower at the centre of newspaper allegations that Qatar paid two members of the executive committee to vote for their bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
“The newspaper has agreed we will bring this whistleblower to Zurich and then we will have meetings and discussions to find out the reality in an investigation,” said the Fifa president. Last Tuesday, a British parliamentary inquiry into why England failed to secure the 2018 finals was told by member of parliament Damian Collins there was evidence from the Sunday Times that Issa Hayatou of Cameroon and Jacques Anouma of the Ivory Coast were paid by Qatar.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2011.
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