Huge email cache reveals secrets of Qatar's shock victory
Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake
More than $5m was paid to senior football officials to create support for Qatar's 2022 bid (Getty)
THE secret payments that helped Qatar to win the World Cup bid are revealed for the first time this weekend in a bombshell cache of millions of documents leaked to The Sunday Times.
The files expose how Qatar's astonishing victory in the race to secure the right to host the 2022 tournament was sealed by a covert campaign by Mohamed bin Hammam, the country's top football official.
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