Qatar's offer for the World Cup has used "black operations": UK report

The success of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was overshadowed by other allegations that they used a secret campaign of "black operations" to undermine rival offers in violation of FIFA rules, according to The Sunday Times. 19659002] The newspaper – which also made allegations in 2014 about the purchase of the vote by Qatar but which was then laundered after a two-year investigation by FIFA led by US lawyer Michael Garcia – claims that e-mails were communicated to him by a whistleblower. They paid a US bureau of a public relations firm as well as former CIA agents to spread "false propaganda" regarding their main rivals, Australia and the United States, during their campaign to host the competition of 2022.

general surprise, beat the Australian and American offers as well as South Korea and Japan to the right to host the quadrennial football game. Russia received at the same time the 2018 edition, especially England

The gas-rich Gulf State strategy was to recruit influential individuals to attack the offers in their respective countries, creating the impression that there was "no support" to host the World Cup among the population, the newspaper said.

One of the main criteria considered by FIFA is that bids should be strongly supported by local people.

Bidders are also prohibited from making "any written or oral statement of any kind, adverse or otherwise, regarding any other member badociation's offers or nominations" as directed by FIFA.

– "Rejects Every Allegation" –

The leaked emails that the Times claims to have obtained were sent to Qatar's Vice President of Tenders, Ali al-Thawadi, and show that the state was aware of plots aimed at spreading poison against other bidders before Qatar gets the right to host the World Cup in December 2010.

Such actions went as far as to plan a resolution for the US Congress on the "harmful" effects of the US World Cup proposal during the voting week, as well as approaching and paying an American professor $ 9,000 (7,723 euros, 6,865 euros) to draft a report on the economic burden of competition.

Qatar issued a blank denial.

In a statement, the Supreme Committee of Qatar stated: "

" We have been the subject of a thorough investigation and we have received all information relating to our offer, including the Official investigation conducted by American lawyer Michael Garcia. We have strictly adhered to all FIFA rules and regulations for the call for bids process for the 2018/2022 World Cup. "

FIFA, which has just come out of what Russia considered a successful reception in a statement that" a thorough investigation was conducted by Michael Garcia and his conclusions are available in the report. "

claims in The Snday Tmes as Qatar's controversial but successful bid to host 2022 World Cup-paid experts to undermine the main rivals of the United States and Australia something that the Qataris deny wearing