Which voting members of the executive committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) were aware, before the attribution ballot for the 2022 World Cup on December 2, 2010, that a bonus of 100 million dollars (85 million euros) was offered to FIFA by the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera Sport in the event of the emirate being designated as the host country of the tournament? This is one of the questions asked by the French investigating judges responsible for judicial information for corruption surrounding the controversial obtaining of the organization of the 2022 World Cup by the emirate.
As early as 2019, the magistrate of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, Jean-Yves Lourgouilloux, estimated that the” offer “ d’Al-Jazira “appears to be a clear violation of FIFA’s own anti-corruption rules, which prohibit any entity linked to a bid from making financial offers in connection with the bid process,” and was “necessarily known to FIFA and its members”. According to Mr. Lourgouilloux, this contract “tends to confirm the hypothesis that Qatar has indeed purchased the right to organize the most important world sporting competition”.
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