Morocco won 2010 FIFA World Cup vote, not South Africa

Both countries offered bribes to secure votes

Morocco won the voting process to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, not eventual host South Africa, and both countries offered bribes to secure votes, according to a report in The Sunday Times.

The newspaper released tapes supporting the allegations that bribes were offered prior to the vote. In the tapes, FIFA executive committee member Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana allegedly revealed that the voting members counted a Morocco win by two votes; the official result saw South Africa winning by four.

Bhamjee apparently told undercover reporters that he believed the votes were intentionally miscounted.

The paper also reported that FIFA vice president Jack Warner accepted a $1-million bribe from Morocco, but eventually voted for South Africa instead. Ahongalu Fusimalohi, a former FIFA ex-co member from Tonga, admitted he was offered a $150,000 bribe from the Moroccans that he refused, but others accepted, according to the report.

Warner has also been accused of demanding a $7-million bribe to vote for Egypt by the country’s former sports minister, while there have also been allegations that a $10-million sum paid to Warner by South Africa in 2008 was a bribe to secure his vote.

South Africa’s organised and serious crime unit is now investigating the World Cup bidding process.

This is only the latest in a string of reports alleging corrupt behavior by officials at FIFA, which saw Sepp Blatter resign just three days after securing a fifth term as president.

A new president will be selected in the coming months.

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Source: The Score

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