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FIFA faces call to rerun 2022 Qatar World Cup vote again
In
the face of new allegations, FIFA faces calls to rerun the
bidding competition for the 2022 World Cup after allegations that
former top Qatar football official paid about $5m to win support for the
nation's campaign to host the World event. Qatar has also come under
fire for its labor laws, in the wake of an international outcry over
conditions for migrant workers before the 2022 WC, the revelations
were made by Guardian investigation which focused on workplace abuse
in the Gulf State.
Labor
is insisting that Qatar should relinquish their rights to host the
2022 edition of the World Cup and also asked that all those involved
in the FIFA corruption allegations should resign if the information
detailed in Sunday Times are all true.
The
chairman of the Football Association has called for Qatar to be
stripped of the World Cup if it is proven that the Gulf state’s top
football official paid millions of dollars to African counterparts in
the run up to the vote.
Greg
Dyke said that if the process of awarding the World Cup in 2022 was
“corrupt”, it had to be “looked at again”.
He
spoke out after the discovery of emails showing that hundreds of
thousands of dollars were channelled to dozens of African football
officials before and after the votes for the 2018 and 2022 World
Cups.
His
call was echoed by one of FIFA's vice-presidents.
Jim
Boyce, who sits as Northern Ireland’s member on the FIFA executive
committee — the body responsible for awarding the World Cup —
said he would be in favor of re-running the vote if the allegations,
published in The Sunday Times, were proven by an independent FIFA report.
The
Sunday Times revealed that they had obtained millions of emails and
other documents relating to alleged payments made by Mohammed bin
Hammam, the then FIFA Executive member for Qatar. Mohammed Bin
Hammam, the former president of the Asian Football Confederation, is
accused of masterminding the Qatari bid, and showering gifts and
money on football officials around the world. He has been accused of
channeling tens of thousands of pounds to the presidents of small
football body's in Africa and other countries.
The
fresh allegations came less than two weeks before the start of the
World Cup in Brazil, investigations process is being carried out by
FIFA's independent ethics prosecutors Micheal Garcia.
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