The football
governing body might strip Qatar of its right to stage the 2022 World Cup in
the country should evidence point out that Qatar had used corruption to win the
vote. However, Qatar is considering all its options, including filing a legal
complaint against FIFA for not recognising its bid.
According to
legal observers, Qatar has no right to litigate FIFA because it had wavered its
right to legal action when Qatar won its bidding and signed away its right to
take any form of legal action.
Information
regarding Qatar’s corruption involves former FIFA Vice President Mohamed Bin
Hammam, a Qatari, had paid bribes totalling £3m to influence football administrators
all over the world.
Qatar had
denied all corruption allegations against it involving winning the FIFA bid.
Initially, FIFA had wanted to cast a re-vote, but before it was pointed out
that all countries staging the World Cup had to abide by FIFA’s code of ethics,
which wavers all legal action against FIFA’s actions if FIFA had decided to
withdraw the stage.
Legal
observers also said that FIFA’s Ethics Committee could hear Qatar’s appeal, but
they pointed out that it was not a court of law and even the Court of
Arbitration of Sport could not handle the dispute.
FIFA had
hired US attorney Michael Garcia to investigate the 2022 vote and 2018 vote to
find any traces of corruption. Garcia is about to end his investigation this
week.
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