FIFA report accuses Hammam of bribery

Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, according to a secret report by the organisation's ethics committee obtained by Britain's Press Association

Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, according to a secret report by the organisation's ethics committee obtained by Britain's Press Association.

There was "comprehensive, convincing and overwhelmin" evidence against Bin Hammam, the head of the Asian Football Confederation, and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was "an accessory to corruption", the report said.

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