FIFA report accuses bin Hammam of bid to bribe
China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-24 07:56
'Comprehensive and overwhelming' evidence found against Qatari and vice-president
LONDON - Mohamed bin Hammam tried to bribe officials in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, according to a secret report by the organization's ethics committee obtained by Britain's Press Association.
There was "comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming" evidence against bin Hammam, the head of the Asian Football Confederation, and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was "an accessory to corruption", the report said.
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