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Annual Report 2015 For personal use only Foxtel: 2.8 million subscribing homes in Australia FOX SPORTS Australia: The leading sports entertainment company in Australia The Times was named EXCLUSIVE|MAGAZINE FREE INSIDEDE “Newspaper of the TODAYAY GIANTPOSTERGIANT POSTER Year” and The Sunday Jonathan Northcroft’sdreamXI 100 factsaboutthe weird andwonderful Times garnered the BECKHAM UP Go Set A Watchman: “News Team of the WORLDCUP 2014 THE AMAZON The most pre-ordered No 9,899 |JUNE01, 2014 |thesundaytimes.co.uk £2.50 | £2.00 TO SUBSCRIBERS Year” honor from the book in HarperCollins’ British Press Awards history Plot to buythe WorldCup Huge email cache More than $5m was paid to senior football officials to WORLDEXCLUSIVE create support for revealssecrets of Qatar’s 2022 bid Qatar’sshock victory FIFA FILES trolled by the presidents of 30 BRIBES, BUNGS African football associations INSIGHT who held sway over how the continent’s four executive ANDSLUSH (Exco) members would vote Jonathan Calvert n Hostedaseries of lavish jun- and Heidi Blake PAGES2�11 kets for football presidents FUNDS THE secret payments that across Africa at which he helped Qatar to win the World handed out almost $400,000 Cup bid are revealed for the in cash and met delegates priv- top investigator Michael exerting influence, or conflict first time this weekend in a ately to offer further payments Garcia in Oman. of interest, either directly or bombshell cache of hundreds while pushing for their sup- Sources say Garcia will inter- indirectly, in connection with of millions of documents port for the Qatar bid view the Qatar bid committee the bidding process ... and leaked to The Sunday Times. n Paid out at least €305,000 in face to face for the first time as any benefit, opportunity, The files expose how legal and private detective fees he nears the end of his two- promise, remuneration or Qatar’s astonishing victory in for Reynald Temarii, the dis- year investigation into allega- service to any such individ- the race to secure the right to graced Oceania Exco member, tions of corruption in the bid- uals, in connectionwith the host the 2022 tournament was after he was suspended for ding contests to be the host bidding process”. sealed by acovert campaign telling undercover reporters nation for the 2018 and 2022 The revelations threaten to by Mohamed bin Hammam, that he had been offered $12m World Cups. engulf Fifa as it prepares to the country’s top football for his vote. Temarii refused to It is understood that Garcia gather for its annual congress official. resign as an Exco member, has no plans to interview Bin in Brazil on June 10 ahead of The Qatari vice-president thus preventing his planned Hammam because the official the World Cup. of Fifa, the governing body of replacement from voting for Qatar bid committee has Facing pressure to rerun the world football, used secret Qatar’s rival Australia in 2022 always insisted that he is an bid, Sepp Blatter, the Fifa presi- slush funds to make dozens of and England in 2018 “entirely separate” individual dent, admitted last month that payments totalling more than n Funnelled more than $1.6m who had nothing to do with it had been a“mistake” to $5m to senior football officials directly into bank accounts the campaign to bring the hand the tournament to Qatar to create agroundswell of controlled by Jack Warner, World Cup to Doha. after Fifa’s technical assessors support for Qatar’s plan to the Exco member for Trinidad The bid committee was had said aDoha World Cup Wednesday, October 8, 2014 THE PEOPLE’S PAPER thesun.co.uk take world football by storm. and Tobago, including quick to disown Bin Hammam would be “high risk” because This weekend and over the $450,000 before the vote publicly when he was banned the searing desert tempera- coming weeks this newspaper n Used his position in charge from world football in 2011 tures of up to 50C could be will expose how Bin Hammam of Fifa’s Goal Programme after being caught bribing harmful to the players. exploited his position at the funds to channel $800,000 to voters in his campaign to be The files chart how Bin heart of world football to help the Ivory Coast FA, whose elected Fifa president. Hammam sought to secure to secure the votes that Qatar Exco member Jacques However, the leaked docu- support from the African needed to win from the key Anouma agreed to “push very ments show how he worked voters, lobbying them on a members of Fifa’s 24-man hard the bid of Qatar”.Healso with the leaders of the Qatar string of junkets at which he ruling committee. signed off two payments of bid and lobbied the key voters, showered them with gifts, TheBy MIKEfiles unlock SULLIVAN the mys- $400,000 each to the federa- arranging lavish junkets paid lucrative benefits, private jet THE Suntery of today how at callsiny desert on Britonsstate tion ofsoftwo other voters for by the 2022 team at which travel and extraordinary hospi- all faithswith noto football unite to infrastructure defeat IS fanat-n Hosted Issa Hayatou, the he offered football officials tality. ics —hwonours the right after to an host alleged the president plot of the Confederation large payments in exchange Emails, faxes, accounts and by theworld’s terror biggest group’s sporting first tour- UKof cell African Football (CAF), on a for their support. dozens of bank transfer slips was foilednament. by Thisthe security week they forces.lavish junket in Doha at which Fifa’s rules ban bid commit- show he bought support Fourreveal men how aged Bin Hammam: 20 and 21 —odelegatesne were lobbied over venting rival countries corruption experts called for member of Fifa’s independent that the decision as to where tees, or any of their associates, across the continent by believedn Used to 10 have slush recently funds con- returnedthe 2022 bid. Amonth later including Australia from the competition to host the governance committee. the World Cup should be held from “providing to Fifa or any handing out hundreds of thou- fromtrolled Syria by—w his privateere held company by armedthe Qatar bid committee lobbying key figures from the 2022 World Cup to be rerun. John Whittingdale, chair- in 2022 should be run again.” representative of Fifa ...any sands of pounds in cash to policeand using cash stun handouts grenades to make in dawnannounced an exclusive $1m continent. The documents were man of the Commons culture The disclosures come as the monetary gifts [or] any kind of African football officials and raidsdozens in West of payments London yesterday. of up to deal to sponsor CAF’s annual This weekend football described as a“smoking gun” committee, said: “There is Qatar 2022 bid committee is personal advantage that could making payments directly Now$200,000 we are into urging accounts communities con- congress in Angola, pre- chiefs, politicians and anti- by Alexandra Wrage, aformer now an overwhelming case facing ashowdown with Fifa’s give even the impression of Continued on page 2 WW across the country to make a stand to prevent barbaric Islamic State extremists rad- OVERSEAS PRICES NEWS 2 icalising British youths. WEATHER NEWS 35 Meriam to be set free Plebgate trap snared Mitchell Cleggatrecordlow LETTERS NEWS 30 SUDOKU NEWS REVIEW 9 under-secretary at Sudan’s Mitchell the next time he libel. It reveals how after pre- far recorded by the pollster. TV &RADIO CULTURE 41 Nicholas Hellen David Leppard Tim Shipman foreign ministry, told The tried to cycle through the vious altercations, No 10 had POLITICAL EDITOR Just 13% of voters think MERIAM IBRAHIM, aSudan- Sunday Times yesterday. NEWevidence in the Pleb- main gates. When he tried to instructed police to give Clegg is doing agood job ese mother of two sentenced The plight of Ibrahim, 27, gate affair suggests Downing do so just hours later, the “unfettered” access to NICK CLEGG has become the while 78% say he is doing 22 to deathfor converting from who gave birth to adaughter Street police officers set a angry exchange that led to Mitchell and details of text least popular leader in mod- badly, arating of -65. Islam to Christianity, is to be in custody on Wednesday, has trap for Andrew Mitchell, the his resignation took place. messages sent between diplo- ern British political history, Anthony Wells of YouGov freed within days. drawn worldwide condemna- former Tory chief whip. The email features in a matic protection group according to anew poll. said: “This is worse even than “She will definitely not be tion. David Cameron called An email sent in Sep- dossier lodged by Mitchell’s officers after the incident. AYouGov poll for The the [-62] for Gordon Brown executed. Iamsure about her treatment “barbaric”. tember 2012 shows some solicitors in the High Court Emails reveal police laid Sunday Times reveals his per- at his lowest point in 2008.” 9770956 138379 this,” Abdullahi Alzareg, an Full report, page 31 officers were planning to stop where he is being sued for Plebgate trap, page 18 sonal rating is the lowest so Pain for Clegg, page 13 For personal use only Storyful: More than 2 billion video views Realtor.com® is the fastest growing real estate website in America SECTION 7 17.05.2015 SUNDAY TIMES GARDENING COURSE WEEK 10 HOMEINSIDE FRIDAY JULY 10 2015 P2JW191000-0-M00100-1--------XA CL,CN,CX,DL,DM,DX,EE,EU,FL,HO,KC,MW,NC,NE,NY,PH,PN,RM,SA,SC,SL,SW,TU,WB,WE C M Y K Composite BG,BM,BP,CC,CH,CK,CP,CT,DN,DR,FW,HL,HW,KS,LA,LG,LK,MI,ML,NM,PA,PI,PV,TD,TS,UT,WOProperty supplement of the year The Dude abides: Jeff Bridges lists ‘Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a Montecito estate for place where people can experiment with $29.5 million M2 MANSION their lives...’’ —Tom Robbins HOMES|MARKETS|PEOPLE |UPKEEP |VALUES|NEIGHBORHOODS|REDOS|SALES|FIXTURES|BROKERS GO© 2015D WESTow Jones & Company.