Fifa to publish Garcia report

Fifa's executive committee has agreed to publish Michael Garcia's report into World Cup corruption, according to media reports. File photo: Michael Buholzer

Fifa's executive committee has agreed to publish Michael Garcia's report into World Cup corruption, according to media reports. File photo: Michael Buholzer

Published Dec 19, 2014

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MARRAKESH, Morocco – Fifa's executive committee has agreed to publish Michael Garcia's report into World Cup corruption, according to media reports.

Sky News quoted sources as saying the report would be published with “with appropriate redactions,” according to Sky sources.

It said the executive committee decided in Morocco to make the report public once the inquiry into World Cup bidding corruption is complete.

Officials reached agreement without a vote being taken.

According to Britain's BBC the executive committee “voted unanimously” for full publication of Garcia's report. The BBC cited “sources close to world football's governing body.”

Garcia on Wednesday resigned his position from Fifa,'s ethics committee, the day after the world football governing body dismissed his appeal against its summary of his investigation into the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

In a statement Garcia, a former United States attorney, said there was a “lack of leadership” at Fifa, he had lost confidence in Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber, and that “his role in this process is at an end.”

Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup with the 2022 edition going to Qatar. But following allegations of corruption, Garcia was commissioned to investigate and report on the bidding process for the events. – Sapa-dpa

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