'Vote-selling' duo to appear in front of FIFA committee this week
FIFA officials Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, who have been accused of offering to sell their votes for the destination of the 2018 FIFA World Cups, will appear in front of the organisation's ethics committee on Wednesday, 20 October to face corruption
allegations.
It was reported by English newspaper The Sunday Times, earlier in the week that the duo had offered to sell their votes for the 2022 tournament after reporters for the newspapers posed as representatives for a group of companies interested in taking the
event to the United States.
FIFA is also looking into claims that several countries had been involved in collusion over their bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
The ethics committee called the hearing after Adamu, from Nigeria, and Temarii, president of the Oceania Football Confederation, were filmed by the newspaper apparently asking for payment for their votes.
Adamu was reported to have asked for $800,000 to build four football pitches in return for giving the US bid his backing. Temarii was alleged to have asked for money to build a sports academy, but he has claimed that he is innocent.
'I am convinced of my integrity'
He told Inside World Football that: “I am 100 per cent convinced of my integrity. That's why I have stayed on. I am not shocked by these revelations because I know what I did. And I know what I have to do. You have only heard 15 seconds of the interview.
Maybe you should hear the full 45 minutes. Then you will understand everything."
FIFA is also set to look at "alleged agreements between member associations" who are bidding for the two World Cups, but did not state which countries were being accused.
Rumours have surfaces of a conspiracy between a country bidding for the 2018 tournament and one which is in the running for the 2022 event.
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