Like from some action movie. This is the situation surrounding FIFA President Gianni Infantino (52) and organizers of last year’s Qatar football championship. What is going on? It became clear that the people of Qatar had eavesdropped on the heads of the biggest football organizations in the past! The reason is to secure the title.
Extreme heat, accusations of corruption in bidding to host the World Cup, human rights abuses, inadequate working conditions for workers, or economic and logistical boycotts. This is a list of affairs that could deprive Qatar of hosting the football World Cup, which was awarded to it in 2010, over the past decade.
The organizers of the megalomaniac tournament decided to do everything to keep the event in their country. They are not even afraid to eavesdrop on FIFA president Gianno Infantino, as the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported last weekend. The supposed interception took place in 2017 in one of the hotels in Bern owned by the Qatari owners, where the aforementioned Infantino and Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber had a meeting.
The Swiss daily reported that intelligence agents had been linked to former CIA officers. According to the documents, the espionage was to be carried out as part of “Project Matterhorn” to collect material at Lauber. Why are they targeting him? At the time, prosecutors oversaw an investigation into the football officials, which began in 2014 with a criminal complaint by FIFA. The goal is to uncover the financial machinations associated with the World Cup hosting candidates, including representatives from Qatar.
This confirms reports from 2021. At the time, The Associated Press reported that Qatar had spent tens of millions of crowns over several years hiring the agency Global Risk Advisors to spy on the FIFA organization and international football officials.
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino was allegedly bugged by Qatar in 2017
“Certified bacon geek. Evil social media fanatic. Music practitioner. Communicator.”
