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carl_feedthegoat wrote:

Ted Hughes wrote:Another whistleblower has come forward claiming a member of the executive committie asked for money in exchange for votes.

Told you: Watergate. Wait til the FBI get stuck into them & they all start trying to save themselves from prosecution. With a bit of luck, they'll find something on Platini. He voted for Qatar I believe ? Why would anyone vote for a World Cup in Qatar, except for money or favours ?

May as well hold it at the North Pole or under the fucking sea.

Lescott would be a world beater if it was played under the sea.

Beefymcfc wrote:So we now have another whistleblower in the form of Les Murray, who was a member of the FIFA ethics committee. He reported that a FIFA ExCo member was whoring himself out for $5 mil and although this backs up the previous statements regarding members asking for Australia to pay for their countries facilities, not a word was mentioned in the report.

When I said 'Open Sesame' I didn't think it would be this quick and it's now turning into a right 'Pandora's Box'.

'The Truth Will Out', as the say, or will it now be buried as the domestic leagues gets into full flow?

Beefymcfc wrote:More allegations in the Sunday Times saying that a dossier has been passed the the Government Select Committee. One part of the unproven allegations are that Blatter himself accepted a portrait from one of the bidding nations.

Surely that'll be in some Swiss bank volt by now, never to be linked with Blatter again - until he sells it!

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:FIFA have stated firmly that they are not corrupt, surely that should be good enough for you all?

Dameerto wrote:

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:FIFA have stated firmly that they are not corrupt, surely that should be good enough for you all?

There should be an FA led inquiry into potential FA corruption, to sort the matter out once and for all.

Dameerto wrote:I'm in the wrong thread - it was funny in my head for a second though.

Dameerto wrote:I'm in the wrong thread - it was funny in my head for a second though.

Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia loses appeal against ethics summary

The Fifa ethics investigator, Michael Garcia, has lost his appeal against the findings that cleared Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.

Garcia last month claimed a statement by the Fifa ethics judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, on his report into bidding for the World Cups had contained “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions” and announced he would appeal.

That appeal has now been declared inadmissible by Fifa’s appeals committee, which said Eckert’s statement was not a legally binding decision and therefore could not be appealed against.

Eckert’s statement said any rule breaches by the bidding countries were “of very limited scope”, adding: “In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.”

A Fifa statement said: “The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.

“The said statement about the report on the inquiry into the 2018-2022 Fifa World Cup bidding process does not constitute a decision and as such is neither legally binding nor appealable.”

Meanwhile, complaints by two World Cup bid whistleblowers that their cover had been blown by Eckert’s findings have also been rejected.

Phaedra Almajid, who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010, and Bonita Mersiades, who worked for Australia’s 2022 bid, complained that promises of confidentiality had been breached because his findings contained more than enough information to make them easily identifiable.

Sideshow Bob wrote:shocking developments. no one could have seen this coming!

Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia loses appeal against ethics summary

The Fifa ethics investigator, Michael Garcia, has lost his appeal against the findings that cleared Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.

Garcia last month claimed a statement by the Fifa ethics judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, on his report into bidding for the World Cups had contained “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions” and announced he would appeal.

That appeal has now been declared inadmissible by Fifa’s appeals committee, which said Eckert’s statement was not a legally binding decision and therefore could not be appealed against.

Eckert’s statement said any rule breaches by the bidding countries were “of very limited scope”, adding: “In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.”

A Fifa statement said: “The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.

“The said statement about the report on the inquiry into the 2018-2022 Fifa World Cup bidding process does not constitute a decision and as such is neither legally binding nor appealable.”

Meanwhile, complaints by two World Cup bid whistleblowers that their cover had been blown by Eckert’s findings have also been rejected.

Phaedra Almajid, who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010, and Bonita Mersiades, who worked for Australia’s 2022 bid, complained that promises of confidentiality had been breached because his findings contained more than enough information to make them easily identifiable.

Wonderwall wrote:

Sideshow Bob wrote:shocking developments. no one could have seen this coming!

Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia loses appeal against ethics summary

The Fifa ethics investigator, Michael Garcia, has lost his appeal against the findings that cleared Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.

Garcia last month claimed a statement by the Fifa ethics judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, on his report into bidding for the World Cups had contained “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions” and announced he would appeal.

That appeal has now been declared inadmissible by Fifa’s appeals committee, which said Eckert’s statement was not a legally binding decision and therefore could not be appealed against.

Eckert’s statement said any rule breaches by the bidding countries were “of very limited scope”, adding: “In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.”

A Fifa statement said: “The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.

“The said statement about the report on the inquiry into the 2018-2022 Fifa World Cup bidding process does not constitute a decision and as such is neither legally binding nor appealable.”

Meanwhile, complaints by two World Cup bid whistleblowers that their cover had been blown by Eckert’s findings have also been rejected.

Phaedra Almajid, who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010, and Bonita Mersiades, who worked for Australia’s 2022 bid, complained that promises of confidentiality had been breached because his findings contained more than enough information to make them easily identifiable.

So in short, an independent party is employed to write a report about the corruptors.
The report is given to a Fifa ethics judge, selected by the corruptors
the report is quite damning... so the Fifa ethics judge pretends it didn't say what the independent party wrote and release a statement saying something different
The independent party speaks out and exposes the Fifa ethics judge for covering up of the facts
The independent party then appeals to a committee, selected by the corruptors to look into the inaccuracies of the statement
The committee (appointed by the corruptors) find the Fifa ethics judge (appointed by the corruptors) has done no wrong in releasing the statement clearing the corruptors

Eckert’s statement was not a legally binding decision and therefore could not be appealed against.

The Fifa whistleblower who said her confidentiality had been breached and her safety compromised by its investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has called its dismissal of her complaint “a transparent avoidance of a clear violation of its own rules”.

Both Phaedra Almajid, who worked on Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid, and Bonita Mersiades, a member of the Australia 2022 bid team, complained to Fifa’s disciplinary committee in the wake of the publication of Hans-Joachim Eckert’s disputed summary of Michael Garcia’s investigation. But the disciplinary committee ruled on Tuesday that there was no case to answer.

“I cooperated with Mr Garcia’s investigation for over two and a half years under a clear, unqualified promise of confidentiality. He asked me for my confidentiality and repeatedly promised me mine,” said Almajid.

“I kept my promise. Herr Eckert breached that confidentiality. I did not. The disciplinary committee’s avoidance of this undisputable violation is emblematic of its culture of self-protection.”

Eckert not only dismissed their evidence but effectively identified them, despite the need to maintain the confidentiality of witnesses being the main argument employed in favour of publishing a summary rather than the entire report.

Fifa said that the pair had effectively waived their right to anonymity by going public with their “own media activities long before the publication” of the report summary.

Almajid, who claimed her safety and that of her family had been compromised by the Garcia process, said that was an “obvious dodge”. “My public statements were all made long before I entered into a confidentiality agreement with Mr Garcia. I made no public statements during the entire period of Mr Garcia’s investigation,” she said.

“I relied on Fifa’s promise of confidentiality and continued to honour my promise until Herr Eckert published his ‘summary’. My recent public statements have only been made after Herr Eckert’s identification of me in blatant violation of Fifa confidentiality rules.”

Eckert’s 42-page summary of Garcia’s 430-page report, which effectively cleared the 2018 hosts Russia and 2022 hosts Qatar of serious wrongdoing, did not name either woman. But both argued that its description of them made them easy to identify.

Almajid worked on the Qatar bid in a senior communications role and was behind allegations aired under parliamentary privilege that the African Fifa executives Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu were given $1.5m each to vote for Qatar. The three have denied the allegations, as has the Qatar bid committee.

She later retracted the claim but has said she agreed to do so only under duress after the Qatar organising committee said it would not bring legal action against her for breaching a confidentiality clause in her contract if she signed a sworn statement.

There also appears to be a discrepancy between the reasons Fifa gave for dismissing her complaint in its media release and those in a letter to Almajid, in which it effectively states that she is not entitled to complain because she is no longer working in football.

Almajid said her treatment was another blow to Fifa’s credibility, ahead of this week’s executive committee meeting at which members will vote over whether the Garcia report should be released in full.

“The disciplinary committee’s decision today is one more example of an organisation whose rules are mere formalities meaning nothing,” she said. “Woe be to any other person who cares enough to risk personal safety to report Fifa corruption.”

Garcia also revealed that the Fifa executive committee led by Sepp Blatter tried to have disciplinary proceedings opened against him in September.

bigblue wrote:Garcia now resigns:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... -committee

Garcia also revealed that the Fifa executive committee led by Sepp Blatter tried to have disciplinary proceedings opened against him in September.

shocking in a way how horribly predictable the corruption is. Really hope there is some real blowback from this. The major nations and sponsors should tell the swiss fuckers to get lost asap