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FIFA is facing the most serious allegations in its recent history after it was alleged that the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups was riddled with corruption and inappropriate behaviour by executive committee members.
Six members of FIFA's executive committee - a quarter of the membership - were accused in Britain's Parliament of "improper and unethical behaviour" with two members, Issa Hayatou, of Cameroon, and Jacques Anouma, of Ivory Coast, alleged to have received $US1.5 million ($A1.39m) each in bribes from the Qatar 2022 bid in exchange for their votes. Qatar has denied the allegations.
On an extraordinary morning of evidence before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee the former chairman of England's bid, Lord Triesman, accused four members of FIFA's executive committee of making inappropriate requests for money or favours. The bribery allegations against Qatar were made in evidence from The Sunday Times and published by the committee.
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The allegations arise from the two-year bidding campaign for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup competitions, decided by a vote of the FIFA executive committee in Zurich last December. England's 2018 bid was humiliated in defeat to Russia, polling just two votes, while Qatar won the 2022 race, defeating the United States in a final round of voting. Australia's polled just one vote for the right to hold the 2022 World Cup.
Protected by parliamentary privilege, Triesman listed four examples of "inappropriate" behaviour by executive committee members, alleging they had asked for favours ranging from a £2.5 million ($A3.8m) 'donation' to build a school to a request for an honorary knighthood.
Triesman alleged that Jack Warner, of Trinidad and Tobago, had asked for money to build a school in his home country as part of his "legacy".
Triesman said Warner also asked for a £500,000 donation to buy the rights to the World Cup for Haiti so that games could be shown to survivors of the catastrophic earthquake on big screens.
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