Qatar 2022: Americans and Brazilians investigate the transfer of $22m in January 2011 (Mediapart)

"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Brazilian justice authorities are investigating a transfer from Qatar of $22m (or €16.5m) paid into an Monaco bank account belonging to Ricardo Teixeira, the former head of the Brazilian Football Confederation, and which was completed shortly after Qatar was attributed the 2022 World Cup in a vote by the FIFA Executive Committee in December 2010," according to information provided to the news agency Mediapart on 26/11/2017.

The payment was made (in January, shortly after the vote of the FIFA Executive Committee which awarded the World Cup to Qatar on 02/12/2010) to Ricardo Teixeira, former head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and paid into his account with the Pasche Monaco bank in Monte Carlo, which was then a subsidiary of French bank Crédit Mutuel-CIC," added Mediapart.

The $22m is deemed to have come from the Qatari group Ghanim bin Saad Al Saad & Sons Group (CSSG), according to Médiapart, who added: "This conglomerate, specialised in construction, led by businessman Ghanim bin Saad al-Saad is at the heart of…