Accordingly, Qatar has more than ten million U.Sdollars paid to a company former US Secret Service officials CIA and was run by Kevin Chalker, who was also with the CIA. By your “Project Riverbed“ The firm specifically targeted Zwanzer, who had emerged among senior officials as one of the most vocal and earliest critics of the decision to award the world’s biggest sporting event to a state known for its human rights abuses and scandalous treatment of migrant workers .
Nice in November 2021 AP had reported about itthat former CIA agent Kevin Chalker had been hired by Qatar to sway opinion.
Offer for electronic surveillance system
The current research has revealed a concrete goal in Theo Zwanziger. They also revealed that Global Risk Advisors (GRA) had offered Qatar to deploy a wide-ranging electronic surveillance system that would also be used at the World Cup, which will be held from November 21 to December 18.
Kevin Chalker confirmed to AP that there was a “Project Riverbed” the current report but based on “false information from unidentified sources”. Chalker’s attorney added Zwanziger was never the target of an undercover operation.
AP claims to have thoroughly checked the sources and documents. A different picture emerges from this.
That is the primary objective of the covert operation “Riverbed“ been, twenties than one “Threat” Qatar’s Awarded WM to actually be allowed to unsubscribe, too “neutralize”. The attempt to influence Zwanziger and those around him was made from January 2012 to mid-2014.
“Cancer of World Football”
Zwanziger criticized the 2010 award of the WM at Qatar early. There were simply better applicants, the human rights situation in the small country on the Persian Gulf is bad, and there are also clear indications of corruption. After twenties Qatar even than “Cancer of World Football” referred to, the Qatar Football Association sued him for injunctive relief. The Düsseldorf Regional Court ruled that the designation was covered by freedom of expression.
The now 76-year-old twenty-something was the sole president of the German Football Association from 2006 to 2012, having previously led the association together with Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder. From 2011 to 2015, the lawyer sat on the executive committee of the world association FIFA.