A longstanding whistleblower allegation that Qatar offered cash to voters during its winning bid to host the World Cup was denied again by officials in a Netflix documentary released Wednesday.
The four-part show "FIFA Uncovered" directly put the question to key Qatari official Hassan Al-Thawadi -- the bid campaign leader in 2010, now heading the World Cup organizing committee -- of whether he took part in offering $1.5 million to each of three FIFA voters from Africa.
"My reaction, especially on the Phaedra situation, it's frustration," Al-Thawadi told interviewers for the Netflix show. "They are inherently false and there are facts on the ground that prove they are false." The alleged offers to African voters were detailed in May 2011 by a British parliamentary hearing which received evidence from The Sunday Times newspaper. They implicated, and were denied by, Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma plus a third man, Amos Adamu, who were suspended by FIFA for financial misconduct before the World Cup votes.She later testified to a FIFA-appointed investigation of the 2018-2022 bidders led by Michael Garcia, a former U.S.
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