FIFA executive Mohamed bin Hammam promised a strong defense at his bribery hearing on Friday, when he seeks to provide "convincing grounds" of his innocence in a scandal that has tarnished the reputation of soccer's world governing body.
The ethics panel said, in a leaked report, that it has "compelling" evidence of a bribery conspiracy involving bin Hammam and his former FIFA executive committee colleague Jack Warner. FIFA ended its legal pursuit of Warner last month when the Trinidad and Tobago government minister resigned all soccer duties.
FIFA's ethics panel can call for new investigations... after it decides on bin Hammam's case.
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His only real defense is that bribery was common place for all FIFA events and political votes which should weigh heavily in on the suspicions of his methods used to win the 2022 bid. He will be walking a very fine tightrope of saying it was a common practice used by many other people but then also not connecting that practice and the methods to the 2022 bid. His lawyers better be very good or something might just slip out.