Former FIFA official received $1.2m after World Cup bid according to a newspaper report. The money came from a company controlled by former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam. 

It's the Daily Telegraph that today published the article claiming new evidence of payments from a Qatar former FIFA vice-president to board member Jack Warner. Critics have been questioning the reason for FIFA to choose Qatar since it was announced last year, and with the Jack Warner allegedly receiving money, the article is likely to put the World football's governing body under further pressure over awarding Qatar the 2022 World Cup. 

According to the allegations in the Telegraph, the payments to Warner were to "offset legal and other expenses, as well as "professional services provided over the period 2005-2010". Furthermore, at least $750,000 were paid to Warners sons, and a further $400,000 was paid to one of his employees. 

Bin Hammam was a senior official during the time of the bidding race, but was later banned from football for life after it emerged that he had bribed other senior officials in his battle for the presidency against Sepp Blatter. 

The Qatar 2022 committee has denied any involvement in corruption and have sought to distance themselves from Bin Hammam. More than half of the 22 men who voted to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia, and the 2022 edition to Qatar are no longer members of the executive committee. Warner, who left FIFA in 2012, have been surrounded by controversy in his 28 years in the executive committee.