Expensive works of art are offered as incentives and ended up in the center of the recent series of devastating allegations about the nomination process for the 2018 World organization in 2022, according to a recently released report.
A painting, believed to be the Picassos, is accused of making gift is president of the Union of European Football Federation (UEFA), also members of FIFA's executive, Michel Platin, in exchange for his support for the candidacy - already successful - Russia for the right to organize the 2018 World Cup.
Another member entitled to vote at #FIFA, Michel D'HOOGHE from Belgium, has also been the beneficiary of a very precious painting, given to a package wrapped in a brown paper by Viacheslav Koloskov, a former member of the Russian Executive Committee, who worked at that time in favor of the efforts of his nation to welcome the 2018's tournament.
The report claims these revelations and allegations published in "The Sunday Times".
The immediate reaction of #Platin, who declared that "the allegations published in the Sunday Times about my actions in the nomination process for the 2018 and 2022 #World are totally fabricated. The case has already passed my legal advisers, "said former #French national team star.
D'HOOGHE said to "Sunday Times" that he believed that painting that was given was "terribly ugly" and he did not believe there was any value to it. He also said he had not voted in favor of Russia's candidacy.
Recent discoveries British tabloid are based on evidence submitted in a British parliamentary committee, which is investigating the circumstances turn in connection with the granting of the right to organize the World to the respective countries, especially for the shed light on England's failed candidacy for the 2018 competition.
