Fearing that press scrutiny would cost them votes, England's World Cup bid committee asked the BBC's director general to suppress an upcoming investigation into FIFA corruption. The BBC refused — and ran the piece anyway, exposing $100 million in alleged bribes to senior FIFA officials.
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In October 2010, Sunday Times journalists executed one of investigative journalism's great stings. Posing as American business executives, they met with FIFA executive committee members and offered payments to vote for the US bid — capturing the responses on hidden cameras. Nigerian delegate Amos Adamu was recorded agreeing to rank the US second if his first-choice bidder fell through, for $800,000 — implicitly revealing someone had already paid for his first-choice vote. Tahitian delegate Reinal Tamari went further, claiming he'd already been offered bribes as high as $12 million. FIFA suspended both men provisionally, removing two votes from the pool — but because they appealed rather than accepted their suspensions, no deputies replaced them, reducing the EXCO to 22 votes. Since Tamari had intended to vote for Australia, Qatar's main rival, his absence actually improved Qatar's odds.
Undercover Sunday Times journalists recorded Nigerian FIFA executive committee delegate Amos Adamu agreeing to support the US bid for $800,000 if his first-choice bidder fell through.
Tahitian FIFA executive committee delegate Reinal Tamari told undercover Sunday Times journalists he had already been offered bribes as high as $12 million for his World Cup hosting vote.
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