11 days to go! Qatar again denies claim of cash offers to World Cup voters

Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary General of the World Cup organizing committee talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Doha, Qatar, on March 31, 2022. A long-standing whistleblower allegation of cash offers to voters during Qatar's winning bid to host the World Cup was aired and denied again in a Netflix documentary released Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

A longstanding whistleblower allegation that Qatar offered cash to voters during its winning bid to host the World Cup was denied again by officials in a Netflix documentary released Wednesday.

The four-part show "FIFA Uncovered" directly put the question to key Qatari official Hassan Al-Thawadi - the bid campaign leader in 2010, now heading the World Cup organizing committee - of whether he took part in offering $1.5 million to each of three FIFA voters from Africa.