Mr Garcia wrote the report on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups, due to be played in Russia and Qatar. But that report has not been published by Fifa, football’s governing body. It has instead published one by Hans-Joachim Echert, a German prosecutor. The two men are in charge of two different parts of the Fifa ethics committee.

Mr Garcia wants his full report published. He accused his German colleague of making ‘numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions’. The published report claimed that ‘a degree of closure’ had been reached and that there is insufficient evidence to reopen the bidding process.

Mr Garcia used  to the US Attorney General for the Southern District of New York.

Source: Financial Times