Evidence against a key FIFA voter was found by the Brazilian police investigation as payments of many Qatari construction companies into his secret bank account.
One out of the 14 FIFA committee members, Ricardo Teixeira voted for Qatar to host the 2022 world cup. He is also the infamous former head of Brazilian football.
Widening the area of investigation, Swiss police came to action by raiding the offices of a company in Zurich. The allegations were about a football match played as a friendly match, which was sponsored by a Qatari construction firm who was found to have close links with the emir.
This highly raises the question about the involved companies trying to seek a favor from the royalties of Qatar by building up an influence on the voters, though the payments were not made formally from the bid for 2022 by Qatar.
Both inquiries enlist Mr. Teixeira’s name as suspect.
Meanwhile in Monaco transaction details about a secret bank of a judge has been passed on to Brazilian police by him. The Brazilian police was also investigating him in cases of tax evasion and money laundering.
The account details showed that it held money belonging to some Qatari companies which was in the favor of world cup building projects.
According to a Brazilian indictment against Mr. Teixeira, the account held about €30 million ($43m).
All such allegation of his vote being influenced have been denied by Mr. Teixeira.
He backed his statement by arguing that the Monaco account came into existence after two years of Qatar winning the hosting right for the FIFA world cup, and it comprised of funds only coming from Brazil.
"I voted for Qatar, but I did not receive a penny for this," he said.
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