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Three FIFA World Cup officials took bribes, says BBC

Investigative report claims officials involved in voting for hosts of 2018 and 2022 World Cups took bribes.

A BBC PROGRAMME HAS CLAIMED that three FIFA officials involved in voting for the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups took bribes.

The men allegedly took bribes from a sports marketing company  in the 1990s.

Panorama reports that the bribes were among 175 payments of $100m in total.

Last month, the Sunday Times published an article claiming that two senior FIFA officials had offered to sell their votes for the 2018 contest.

Neither FIFA nor the three men named in the Panorama report have responded to the allegations. FIFA’s executive committee is to vote on Thursday for the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 events.

Read the full report on the BBC >