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    Qatar's Bin Hammam accused of buying 2022 World Cup

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    Post by Guest Mon May 30, 2011 10:52 pm

    Suspended Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has made public an e-mail that claims Mohamed Bin Hammam "bought" the 2022 World Cup finals for Qatar.

    Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke admitted he sent the e-mail, which also questioned why Asian football boss Bin Hammam was running for Fifa president.

    Valcke wrote: "[Hammam] thought you can buy Fifa as they bought the World Cup."

    However, Bin Hammam responded by telling BBC Sport on Monday: "I don't know why he [Valcke] has said that."

    The Qatari added: "If I was paying money for Qatar you also have to ask the 13 people who voted for Qatar."

    Asked whether Valcke's allegation was true he said: "What do you think?"

    Valcke stressed that his e-mail to Warner was intended to remain "private" and pointed out that Warner had only published selected parts of it.

    "He [Warner] sent me an email asking if I want that [Bin Hammam to run for Fifa president], he said that I should ask Bin Hammam to pull out," Valcke added.

    Valcke also denied that he had influenced Fifa's ethics committee, which Fifa suspended Warner and Bin Hammam on Sunday over separate allegations of bribery, pending further investigation.

    He stated: "The first time I met the chairman of the ethics committee was yesterday [Sunday] at 1700 [BST] before we went to the press conference. I had no contact at all with anyone."

    Bin Hammam was suspended a matter of hours after withdrawing from the Fifa presidential race on Sunday morning.

    His decision leaves 75-year-old incumbent Sepp Blatter, who is seeking a fourth term in charge of the organisation he has run unopposed since 1998, as the only man running for the office. Blatter is due to hold a news conference on Monday at 1700 BST.

    Fifa has said its election will go ahead, as scheduled, on Wednesday.

    Warner, who is president of the North, Central American and Caribbean confederation (Concacaf), has reacted angrily to the allegations of bribery and the Fifa ethics committee's decision to suspend him.

    The Trinidad and Tobago government minister raged: "I look on the suspension as the worst form of justice by any sporting organisation.

    You don't have to believe me, you don't have to like me, nobody has to eat with me, drink with me or sleep with me but Jesus Christ, take the truth when you see it: Jack Warner

    "They came premeditated, they weren't prepared to listen, they were hand-picked to do a task and they did just that.

    "The guys were hand-picked by Blatter. A kangaroo court would be a decent thing to say."

    Warner, who also turned on Valcke, stated: "I wrote to Valcke telling him, among other things, that the outcome of the [Fifa presidential] elections may cause some fracture in the Arab world which we can ill afford now and that I will like to ask Bin Hammam to withdraw from the race.

    "To which Jerome replied to me and I quote: 'For MBH [Mohamad Bin Hammam], I never understood why he was running. If really he thought he had a chance or just being an extreme way to express how much he does not like anymore JSB [Joseph Sepp Blatter].

    "Or he thought you can buy Fifa as they [Qatar] bought the WC [World Cup]'."

    Warner showed the e-mail to television crews and added: "You don't have to believe me, you don't have to like me, nobody has to eat with me, drink with me or sleep with me but Jesus Christ, take the truth when you see it."

    Warner has also accused Blatter of making a gift of computers and an unauthorised $1m (£607,000) to Concacaf officials.

    "I indicated that at the Miami Concacaf Congress on 3 May Mr Blatter made a gift of $1m to Concacaf to spend as it deems fit," Warner said in a statement.

    "This annoyed [Uefa] president Michel Platini who was present and he approached secretary general Jerome Valcke complaining that Mr Blatter had no permission from the finance committee to make this gift to which Jerome replied that he will find the money for Mr Blatter.

    "I also indicated Fifa, through Mr Blatter, organised gifts of laptops and projectors to all members of the Caribbean and no objections have been made today of this to date."

    Deputy chair of Fifa's ethics committee, Petrus Damaseb: "Mr Bin Hammam is hereby provisionally banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity"
    However, Platini said on Monday that he was having a joke with Swiss Blatter.

    The Frenchman said: "He [Blatter] can give [to] the projects that he wants to give. I joke, I said 'but Sepp this was not accepted by the committee' - but he can give many projects to many national associations and we will confirm in the GOAL project after.

    "In many Congresses for many, many years the president can give one or two projects to national associations - he has his own budget and he can give to one confederation and then it has to be approved of course by the executive committee next time."

    Blatter has denied any wrong-doing as have Warner and Hammam, who are accused of offering financial incentives to members of the Caribbean Football Union.

    In a file of evidence it was claimed bundles of cash of up to $40,000 (£24,200) were handed over to members of the CFU at the meeting in Trinidad on 10 and 11 May.

    The payments were allegedly made to secure votes for Bin Hammam in his campaign to challenge Blatter for the presidency.

    Bin Hammam effectively claimed Blatter was aware of some of the wrongdoing but the Fifa president did not report it, in itself a breach of Fifa's ethics code, but he was found to have no case to answer.

    And last week, Qatar 2022 World Cup officials denied allegations, published in the Sunday Times, that they paid bribes in return for votes.

    Meanwhile, independent Australian senator Nick Xenophon has demanded that Fifa refunds the Aus$45.6m (£29.6m) they spent on their unsuccessful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

    Xenophon said: "It appears corrupt and highly questionable behaviour goes to the core of Fifa.

    "Australia spent almost $46m on a bid we were never in the running for.

    "Now we hear that bribes may have been made to fix the result for who will head up Fifa."

    According to the Reuters news agency, China's Zhang Jilong will take charge of the Asian Football Confederation in the absence of Hammam.
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    Post by Lux Mon May 30, 2011 11:06 pm

    I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 1:28 am

    Warner needs to be the good guy for a change and bring them down with him.
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    Post by Scuba Steve Tue May 31, 2011 1:34 am

    Lux wrote:I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......

    In the Qatar vs. USA vote, Blatter voted USA.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 1:36 am

    Didn't he change his vote at some point though?
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    Post by Scuba Steve Tue May 31, 2011 1:37 am

    I believe he was voting South Korea or Japan in the earlier rounds, but switched when both went out.
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    Post by The Bat-Man Tue May 31, 2011 1:38 am

    Who the fuck cares, better off in Qatar anyway.

    I can go see it easier shifty
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 1:40 am

    Scuba Steve wrote:I believe he was voting South Korea or Japan in the earlier rounds, but switched when both went out.

    Wait, so the man who wanted to take the World Cup into new areas, voted for South Korea or Japan?
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    Post by Simonc89 Tue May 31, 2011 1:52 am

    They're all a bunch of knobheads. Should just give it to us this time round. USA had it in 94, they can have it next time.
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    Revealed: Pic of the $40,000 cash paid to the Bahamas FA that sparked the #FIFA bribery claims.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 7:26 am

    Scuba Steve wrote:
    Lux wrote:I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......

    In the Qatar vs. USA vote, Blatter voted USA.

    How do we know who voted who? think
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 7:27 am

    Mr Leiva wrote:
    Scuba Steve wrote:
    Lux wrote:I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......

    In the Qatar vs. USA vote, Blatter voted USA.

    How do we know who voted who? think

    Steve offered him cash.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 7:30 am

    Dan wrote:
    Mr Leiva wrote:
    Scuba Steve wrote:
    Lux wrote:I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......

    In the Qatar vs. USA vote, Blatter voted USA.

    How do we know who voted who? think

    Steve offered him cash.

    eek
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 8:39 am

    I actually believe Warner.
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    Post by Guest Tue May 31, 2011 8:40 am

    I actually believe Warner.
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    Post by Carlos Jenkinson Tue May 31, 2011 8:46 am

    Lux wrote:I don't argue that Bin Hammam is corrupt, it's more that he's being used as a scapegoat as everyone else tries to save themselves.

    As Bin Hammam said........if he bought the World Cup for Qatar then surely the people who voted for Qatar are corrupt...

    Pretty sure that Blatter supported Qatar......

    You're on a roll these days

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