A long report by Mr Garcia - on the procedures for selecting the World Cup venues in Russia and Qatar - has been sent to the chair of Fifa's audit and compliance committee, Domenico Scala. Mr Scala has been given the job of deciding how much of the report should be seen by members of the Fifa governing body. The Garcia report has remained confidential while a controversial summary, produced by Mr Eckert, has been made public. However, Mr Garcia, a US lawyer, has said that the summary contained 'numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions'.  Mr Garcia, formerly the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was the prosecutor who led the federal investigation into the disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. 

Complaint not accepted

Mr Scala is expected to deliver his decision to the executive committee of Fifa at its meeting this week in Morocco. Mr Garcia has just received a setback. He had made a complaint about the decision asking that it would be adjudicated on by Fifa. But Fifa has rejected his appeal, saying that it was 'not admissible'. The Eckert summary essentially drew a line under the controversies around the decisions to locate the World Cups in Russia and Qatar. Source: Financial Times