(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Phaedra Al Majid who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010 said promises her identity would be protected had been central to her decision to co-operate with the ethics investigation into World Cup bidding.
London — Whistleblowers who played a key role in World Cup corruption allegations have made a formal complaint to Fifa that promises to maintain their confidentiality have been broken Britain’s national Press Association news agency reported on Monday.
Phaedra Al Majid who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010 said promises her identity would be protected had been central to her decision to co-operate with the ethics investigation into World Cup bidding.
She and Bonita Mersiades who worked for Australia’s unsuccessful 2022 World Cup bid have separately registered formal complaints against Fifa ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert. They have asserted his findings allied to previously publicly-reported statements made it easy for both of them to be identified.
Almajid in a letter to Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia seen by the Press Association said her safety and that of her sons had been put in danger by the content of Eckert’s report.
“Not only was Herr Eckert’s summary a crude cynical and fundamentally erroneous description of me and the information and materials I provided your investigation it directly breached Fifa’s assurances of my confidentiality” she was quoted by the PA as saying.
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