ZURICH, (Reuters) – An investigation into the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, initially scheduled for completion this month, is only likely to be finished in September, FIFA said in a statement yesterday.
“We expect to deliver our report to the adjudicatory chamber by the first week of September 2014,” said a statement issued by FIFA on behalf of its ethics committee yesterday.
Former United States attorney Michael Garcia has been leading an internal probe by FIFA’s ethics committee into allegations of corruption in the run-up to the vote in December 2010, which awarded the tournament to the Gulf state.
Garcia, who began his investigation 18 months ago, had said in June that he expected to deliver his report by around the end of this month.
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