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18:22, 28-Jun-2017
FIFA publishes full report on 2018, 2022 World Cup bids
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By CGTN's Zhang Anji & Wang Meng
Global soccer body FIFA finally published on Tuesday a report into the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, more than two-and-a-half years after the investigation was completed.
FIFA said the decision was made after the report was "illegally leaked" to German newspaper Bild.
Michael J. Garcia, Chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee attends a news conference at the Home of FIFA in Zurich in July 27, 2012. /VCG Photo
Michael J. Garcia, Chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee attends a news conference at the Home of FIFA in Zurich in July 27, 2012. /VCG Photo
Chief ethics investigator Michael Garcia spent 18 months investigating the bidding process for the World Cups and interviewed 75 witnesses. FIFA however declined to publish the full 430-page document in 2014, instead releasing a 42-page summary that said there was not enough evidence to re-open the bidding process.
Garcia later resigned in protest over his report not being published.
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