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Organizers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have denied fresh allegations of wrongdoing after a British newspaper report questioned the integrity of choosing the emirate as tournament host. The Sunday Times said a ''senior FIFA insider'' had provided ''hundreds of millions of emails, accounts and other documents'' detailing payments totaling $5 million that Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam allegedly gave football officials to build support for the bid. Bin Hammam was a member of FIFA's executive committee for 16 years and key power broker until being expelled in 2012 for financial corruption during his time as Asian Football Confederation president. The Qatar 2022 organizing committee's statement on Sunday stressed that Bin Hammam ''played no official or unofficial role in the bid committee.'' However, most FIFA executive committee voters in December 2010 were bin Hammam's longtime colleagues.
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