David Green, the director of the SFO, said that although the Bribery Act had been introduced too late to catch any offences committed during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, it is actively reviewing recent information related to possible money-laundering.
“We are still examining issues around possible money-laundering,” said Green, appearing before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee. “There are several aspects to it and some new information has come to us quite recently.”
He also confirmed that one of the transactions under scrutiny was a A$462,000 payment (around £301,000) to the disgraced former Fifavice-president Jack Warner from the Australia 2022 bid committee that may have been routed through London.