Thursday, November 17, 2016

2 years on, FIFA's Garcia Report still long way from release (The Associated Press)

FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 file photo of the then FIFA President Joseph Blatter as he announces Russia to host the 2018 World Cup during the announcement of the host country for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland. Two years after details of a FIFA investigation into the 2018-2022 World Cup bid contests were first revealed, the so-called Garcia Report from American lawyer Michael Garcias team is still not close to being published for the scandal-scarred soccer bodys critics to read. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

It was the FIFA ethics investigation many hoped would remove Russia and Qatar as World Cup hosts. Switzerland's federal prosecution office suggests it might take three more years before its investigation of alleged FIFA-linked money laundering is complete and the 430-page dossier can be published. FIFA critics and presidential candidates have often demanded that the Garcia Report - read in its entirety by perhaps as few as seven authorized people - be released to help judge if the hosting contests were won fairly in a December 2010 vote of the soccer body's scandal-tainted executive committee.


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