[WORLD CUP 2022] Qatar 2022 organizers quickly moved to distance themselves from reports of massive payoffs by a firm controlled by Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, the former president of the Asian Football Confederation, to firms and associates of Trinidadian JackWarner, the former Concacaf president, but the Daily Telegraph reportcertainly debunks a central argument of Qatar 2022 World Cup chief Hassan al-Thawadi that there was “not a shred of evidence” to support any of the manyclaims of corruption that have arisen over the last three-plus years.

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