Organization of American States’ Secretary General Luis Almagro has announced a worthy plan to create a new agency within the 34-country OAS to clean up the corruption-ridden soccer business in the region. Problem is, the anti-corruption unit is funded by Qatar.
Qatar, which also faces criticism for its human rights record and possible links to Middle Eastern terrorist groups, is suspected of having paid bribes of at least $5 million to soccer officials around the world in order to win its bid to host the 2022 World Cup, according to the British daily Sunday Times.
The Sunday Times says it has seen millions of e-mails and other secret documents that it claims back up its allegation that fired Qatari soccer official Mohamed Bin Hammam made the payments to win the vote within FIFA. The emirate’s candidacy had faced strong opposition, among other things because of the country’s high temperatures.
On May 27, U.S. attorney General Loretta Lynch and Swiss prosecutors announced an investigation into corruption within FIFA, which led to more than a dozen indictments and arrests of high-ranking FIFA officials.
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Etiquetas: Blatter, FIFA, Luis Almagro, Qatar
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