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The FA has today responded to the statement from the Chairman of the Adjudicatory Chambers of the FIFA Ethics Committee on the report of the inquiry into the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cup bidding process.

 

An FA spokesman said: "We note the FIFA Ethics Committee has today published a 42-page report in relation to the bidding processes for the FIFA World Cups in 2018 and 2022. 

“We were not given any prior notice of the report before publication. We do not accept any criticism regarding the integrity of England’s bid or any of the individuals involved.

“We conducted a transparent bid and, as the report demonstrates with its reference to the England bid team’s ‘full and valuable cooperation’, willingly complied with the investigation. We maintain that transparency and cooperation  around this entire process from all involved is crucial to its credibility.

“We also note that after a lengthy investigatory process and assessment, the report has concluded that the ‘potentially problematic facts and circumstances identified by the report regarding the England 2018 bid were, all in all, not suited to compromise the integrity of the FIFA World Cup 2018/22 bidding process as a whole’.”

Read more at http://www.thefa.com/news/2014/nov/fa-statement-on-the-garcia-report#U5h3o1XK1X51gTJ4.99

 

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FIFA's chief ethics investigator Michael Garcia claims the report on his investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids contain "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations” and has announced he will appeal against the findings

 

The 42-page report by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, chairman of FIFA's independent ethics committee, cleared Qatar of any wrongdoing and confirmed them and Russia as the hosts for the 2022 and 2018 tournaments, stating any rule breaches by the bidding countries were "of very limited scope".

FIFA has issued a statement welcoming the findings but now their own investigator has questioned the validity of the document which also criticised Russia and England’s bids for the 2018 tournament.

 

Garcia said in a statement: "Today's decision by the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions detailed in the investigatory chamber's report.

"I intend to appeal this decision to the FIFA Appeal Committee."

In the report, Russia were accused of failing to provide copies of all their emails from the bid organisation on the basis their computer equipment has since been scrapped while the FA’s relationship with disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was highlighted.

Also, according to the report, the England bid team paid £35,000 for a gala dinner for Caribbean officials, provided "substantial assistance" for a training camp for an Under-20 Trinidad and Tobago team and secured a job in the UK for a Warner family friend.

The report states: "Relevant occurrences included Mr Warner pressing, in 2009 and again in 2010, England's bid team to help a person of interest to him find a part-time job in the UK.

 

"England 2018's top officials in response not only provided the individual concerned with employment opportunities, but also kept Mr Warner apprised of their efforts as they solicited his support for the bid.

"The bid team often accommodated Mr Warner's wishes, in apparent violation of bidding rules and the FIFA code of ethics

"England's response to Mr Warner's - improper - demands, in at a minimum always seeking to satisfy them in some way, damaged the integrity of the ongoing bidding process. Yet, such damage was again of rather limited extent."

The report also says that Lord Triesman, who was England's bid chairman at the time, would not co-operate with the investigation despite using Parliamentary privilege to make a number of allegations.

 

The report also clears Qatar of involvement in any payments by Mohamed Bin Hammam, the Qatari former FIFA executive committee member who was banned for life by FIFA.

It says Bin Hammam was "distant" from the bid committee and that payments made to Warner and some African officials were connected to his bid to challenge Sepp Blatter for FIFA presidency.

But the report fails to mention anything about Spain/Portugal's bid for 2018, which could lead to disciplinary action.

It says: "With regard to one specific bid team however, the report noted that the relevant federation was particularly un-cooperative in responding to the investigatory chamber's requests."

 

FIFA issued a statement welcoming the findings of the report.

“FIFA welcomes the fact that a degree of closure has been reached and the Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee did not find any ‘violations or breaches of the relevant rules and regulations’.

“As such, FIFA looks forward to continuing the preparations for Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, which are already well underway.

“For the sake of further closure, FIFA supports the independent Ethics Committee with respect to their preparedness to potentially open future cases against officials based on the information obtained during this investigation.”

 

 

fifa must of lined eckerts pockets aswell

 

this organisation <<<<<<<<<<<<

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But it won't be long lived

All villians have a win but the good guys will come back out on top

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Fifa move like goons, and Don Sepp is the Godfather

 

They answer to no one and are not regulated, course they are going to get away with anything

 

The report blatantly says they took bribes but still insist their integrity is in check wtf

 

The FA should break away from these clowns FIFA's days are numbered 

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fifa should expel england 

 

about england break away

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FIFA could actually never expel the FA simply because we created/own the rules to the game. 

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What happened to this evidence?

 

 
Qatar World Cup: '£3m payments to officials' corruption claim

Fifa is facing fresh allegations of corruption over its controversial decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The Sunday Times  has obtained millions of secret documents - emails, letters and bank transfers - which it alleges are proof that the disgraced Qatari football official Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling US$5m (£3m) to football officials in return for their support for the Qatar bid.

Qatar 2022 and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied the former Fifa vice-president actively lobbied on their behalf in the run-up to the vote in December 2010.

 

BBC sports editor David Bond on Fifa allegations

But, according to emails obtained by the Sunday Times and seen by the BBC, it is now clear that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision.

 

The documents also show how Bin Hammam was making payments directly to football officials in Africa to allegedly buy their support for Qatar in the contest.

Qatar strongly denies any wrongdoing and insists that Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting the bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign.

When approached by the Sunday Times to respond to their claims, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf.

Although the vast majority of the officials did not have a vote, the Sunday Times alleges Bin Hammam's strategy was to win a groundswell of support for the Qatari bid which would then influence the four African Fifa executive committee members who were able to take part in the election.

The Sunday Times also alleges that it has documents which prove Bin Hammam paid 305,000 Euros (£250,000) to cover the legal expenses of another former Fifa executive committee member from Oceania, Reynald Temarii.

 

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Bin Hammam was initially banned from football for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery.

The allegations centred around bids to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election of that year.

However his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment.

Bin Hammam then quit football saying he had seen the "very ugly face of football".

Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.

In March 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.

Temarii, from Tahiti, was unable to vote in the contest as he had already been suspended by Fifa after he was caught out by a Sunday Times sting asking bogus American bid officials for money in return for his support.

 

But the paper now alleges that Bin Hammam provided him with financial assistance to allow him to appeal against the Fifa suspension, delaying his removal from the executive committee and blocking his deputy David Chung from voting in the 2022 election.

The paper claims that had Chung been allowed to vote he would have supported Qatar's rivals Australia. Instead there was no representative from Oceania allowed to vote, a decision which may have influenced the outcome in Qatar's favour.

 

The paper also makes fresh allegations about the relationship between Bin Hammam and his disgraced Fifa ally Jack Warner, from Trinidad.

Although Warner was forced to resign as a Fifa vice-president in 2011, after it was proved he helped Bin Hammam bribe Caribbean football officials in return for their support in his bid to oust the long-standing Fifa president Sepp Blatter, the paper says it has evidence which shows more than $1.6m was paid by Bin Hammam to Warner, including $450,000 in the period before the vote.

 

The new allegations will place Fifa under fresh pressure to re-run the vote for the 2022 World Cup, which was held in conjunction with the vote for the 2018 tournament, in which England were eliminated in the first round with just two votes.

Fifa's chief investigator Michael Garcia is already conducting a long-running inquiry into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing during the 2018/22 decisions. He is due to meet senior officials from the Qatar 2022 organising committee in Oman on Monday.

But that meeting may now have to be postponed in light of the Sunday Times revelations which have raised important new questions about the link between Bin Hammam and the successful Qatari World Cup campaign.

 

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Evidence was included in report but the people that did it got expelled and banned hence by fifas logic that it has been dealt with and not a factor for consideration

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The joke thing is just how brazen they are.

 

We all know it goes on, just the bare face audacity of Sepp

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Michael Garcia: Fifa investigator resigns in World Cup report row

 

Fifa's independent ethics investigator Michael Garcia has quit in protest over the handling of his report into bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

The American lawyer cited a "lack of leadership" at the top of football's world governing body.

Garcia said he lost confidence in the independence of German judge Joachim Eckert, an ethics committee colleague.

Garcia resigned a day after Fifa's appeals panel rejected his challenge of Eckert's summary of his report.

Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, while Qatar was awarded the 2022 tournament

Garcia's findings were released as a 42-page summary of the 430-page report.

He said the summary was "erroneous" and complained to Fifa, which said his appeal was "not admissible".

 

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Even Platini was saying blatter needs to step down for the next elections

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Fifa committee 'votes for full Garcia report publication'

 

Fifa's executive committee has voted unanimously for the full publication of Michael Garcia's report into World Cup corruption, according to sources close to world football's governing body.

It is understood the committee would want the full details to be released "where legally possible and after current investigations are completed".

 

 

aka we will get to read all the bits that dont matter.

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But Sepp has said no re-vote on either 2018 or 2022

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How is Sepp still in power?

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money talks

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6 arrested in zurich including vice president jeffery webb

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Six football officials have been arrested over corruption charges at governing body Fifa, at a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.

The suspects, who are said to include a Fifa vice-president, have been detained pending extradition to the US.

It involves alleged bribes worth about $100m (£65m; €92m) over two decades.

 

Fifa members are gathering in Zurich for their annual meeting on Friday, where incumbent President Sepp Blatter is seeking a fifth term.

However, Mr Blatter is not understood to be one of those arrested.

'Seeking clarification'

 

The New York Times says plain-clothed police officers took the room keys from the reception of Baur au Lac hotel, where the officials were staying, and headed to their rooms. It said the operation was carried out peacefully.

 

Jeffrey Webb - head of the confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean - has been named as one of the officials arrested, says the BBC's Richard Conway, who is at the Zurich hotel.

Other Fifa officials seen by the BBC escorted by police from the hotel include:

  • Costa Rica's Eduardo Li, who was due to join Fifa's executive committee on Friday
  • Uruguay's Eugenio Figueredo, president of South American football governing body Conmebol
  • Brazil's Jose Maria Marin, a member of Fifa's club committee. Police were seen carrying his suitcase and some of his possessions in plastic bags
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The raid took place at a five star hotel in Zurich early on Wednesday

A Fifa spokesman said the organisation was seeking to clarify the situation.

 

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said in a statement on Wednesday that US authorities suspected the officials of receiving $100m worth of bribes since the early 1990s. The crimes were agreed to and prepared in the US via US bank accounts, it adds.

Swiss authorities can immediately approve the extradition, the statement continues.

 

The BBC has learned that Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan - Sepp Blatter's rival for Fifa presidency - and his advisers will meet later on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the arrests on the presidential election this Friday.

Earlier this month, Mr Blatter said he was aware some of his former colleagues were under investigation.

 

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While Fifa officials were arrested in relation to US corruption charges, a separate probe has been launched into the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Here is the Swiss Attorney General's statement in full:

 

"The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups. In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA’s head office in Zurich.

Read more: Fifa corruption probes - live

 

"Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, the OAG has seized data and documents stored in IT systems at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) as part of a so-called “collection of evidence on cooperative basis”. That means that the party in possession of the data – in this case, FIFA – delivers the requested data to law enforcement authorities, or gives assistance in securing the data, thus facilitating an efficient and swift procedure. The collection of relevant bank documents had already been ordered beforehand at various financial institutes in Switzerland. The files seized today and the collected bank documents will serve criminal proceedings both in Switzerland and abroad. 

 

"In the Swiss criminal proceedings, opened by the OAG on 10 March 2015, it is suspected that irregularities occurred in the allocation of the FIFA World Cups of 2018 and 2022. The corresponding unjust enrichment is suspected to have taken place at least partly in Switzerland. Furthermore, the head office of the damaged party, FIFA, is in Switzerland. For these reasons, investigations are being carried out on the suspicion of criminal mismanagement (Article 158 under 1, Section 3 Swiss Criminal Code / SCC). There are also suspicions of money laundering through Swiss bank accounts (Article 305bis, SCC). Subsequently to today’s seizure of files, the OAG and the Swiss Federal Criminal Police will be questioning 10 persons who took part in voting on the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as members of the Executive Committee in 2010. These persons should be questioned as persons providing information.

 

 

"For reasons of criminal procedure (principle of proportionality), the procedure coordinated with the requested acts of the U.S. authorities was designed in such a way as to allow the procurement of any criminally relevant data in an effective manner, and to avoid any possible collusion. These measures were carried out simultaneously as a large number of persons involved in allocating the World Cups were currently in Zurich. These legal actions concern two criminal procedures conducted separately by the OAG and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The Swiss and US law enforcement authorities are not conducting any joint investigations, but are coordinating their respective criminal proceedings. 

"On 18 November 2014, FIFA had filed criminal charges against persons unknown with the OAG. Therefore, the Swiss proceeding is aimed at persons unknown, with FIFA as the injured party. With this procedure, the OAG is contributing to the struggle against corrupt behaviour and money laundering."

 

 

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Lmaooooooo No wonder why figo was talking so much crud with bass

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They will be fine

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