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World Cup bids could be probed

July 27, 2012
By ESPN staff
The bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups could be examined as part of the wider investigation into corruption allegations, the FIFA ethics investigator Michael J Garcia has said.

Lawyer Garcia declined to give further details but said there were no limitations to what he could look into.

That includes a potential investigation into what FIFA president Sepp Blatter knew about bribes paid to former FIFA officials by ISL, the organisation's now-defunct marketing partners.

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