A whistleblower who worked for the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid has claimed in a new documentary that three African Fifa officials were offered $1.5 million each for their football federations in return for their votes.
Phaedra Almajid alleges in the Fifa Uncovered series, which is being screened by Netflix, that the offer was made by Hassan Al Thawadi, the head of the bid at the time and now the secretary general of the Supreme Committee delivering the World Cup. Al Thawadi said the claims are “inherently false”.
The offer to the three Fifa executive committee members – Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, Jacques Anouma from Ivory Coast and Amos Adamu from Nigeria – was made at a meeting of African football federations in Luanda, Angola,
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