Paris: Qatar paid the African Football Confederation USD 1.8 million (1.6 million euros) to present its bid for the 2022 World Cup at a congress, the continent's top football official told a French magazine.

CAF president and FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said he saw nothing wrong with the payment made before the confederation held a congress in the Angolan capital Luanda in January 2010. Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup later the same year at a controversial FIFA vote now under investigation by Swiss authorities.
Paris-based Jeune Afrique magazine asked Hayatou about the donation from Qatar.