"England's World Cup bid team uncovered a host of corruption allegations at the top of world football after using ex-MI6 officers and overseas diplomats in a spying campaign against Russia during the battle to host the 2018 tournament."
independent.co.uk/sport/football…
independent.co.uk/sport/football…
"Roman was absolutely integral to the Russian bid," an ex-MI6 source told the newspaper. "I remember seeing him attending private meetings with Sepp Blatter in South Africa and thinking 'We don't do that, so we are fucked.'"
Article is from November 30, 2014.
Article is from November 30, 2014.
Aaaahhhhhh, it is Christopher Steele, because The New Yorker's Jane Mayer later outed him.
The Independent has lifted the article from The Times.
thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
The Independent has lifted the article from The Times.
thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
"It also claimed that a 'consortium of sponsors and associates of the England 2018 bid hired one private intelligence agency with close links to MI6 to conduct surveillance on the eight other bidding nations soon after the official bid committee was formed in late 2009'".
