New question about Qatar World Cup in bribery scandal

New question about Qatar World Cup in bribery scandal

The US Department of Justice has filed serious allegations of corruption against FIFA. They have alleged bribery scandals surrounding the 2018 Russia and 2022 Qatar World Cup host elections.

This is not the first allegation of corruption in the 2010 voting process to determine the hosts of these two World Cups. Various doubts and rumors have been heard for the last few years. However, this is the first time that a formal written complaint has been filed against the prosecutors.

According to prosecutors, representatives of Russia and Qatar bribed FIFA executive committee officials to vote for them in important decisions. The World Cup's governing body has not yet commented on the allegations.

Earlier in the day, however, FIFA insisted that there had been no corruption in the hosting of the two World Cups. But the new US allegations are raising questions surrounding the World Cup in Qatar. The next World Cup is scheduled to be held in November-December 2022.

The Department of Justice's indictment alleges that FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was paid শ 5 million by various shell companies to vote for Russia in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

The long-running U.S. investigation has led to many other allegations against Warner. He is fighting corruption charges in his hometown of Trinidad and Tobago. Earlier, it was alleged that Warner was paid a million dollars to vote for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

From the beginning, however, the 6-year-old football official has been denying all allegations of corruption against him. At the time, Warner was president of CONCACAF, a football organization in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

The US Department of Justice's indictment also alleges bribery of three South American members of the FIFA 2010 executive committee. Ricardo Teiseira of Brazil, Nicolas Leos of Paraguay, and his accomplice (name unknown) took bribes in exchange for voting for Qatar in the 2022 World Cup.

Lewis, who was fighting a corruption case in the United States, died under house arrest on February 26, 2019. Teiseira was banned for life from 2008 to 2012 for accepting bribes for marketing and media rights to various football competitions.

In 2014, under then-President Jeep Blatter, FIFA dismissed allegations of corruption in hosting the World Cup in Russia and Qatar.

On 28 May 2015, seven FIFA officials were arrested in Zurich on corruption charges. Two days later, Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term. The officer, who has been the president of the company for more than 18 years, was later banned for alleged involvement.