Senior FIFA officials are reportedly considering what to do about the 2022 World Cup to Qatar after accusations of a massive bribery scandal.  Organizers in the Gulf state are denying any wrongdoing after published reports alleged a shady Qatari official paid A$5.4 Million in cash and goodies to land the tournament.

The Sunday Times of London reported that a “senior FIFA insider” gave its journalists “hundreds of millions of emails, accounts and other documents” that trace the money trail of payouts that the former head of Qatar’s World Cup committee Mohamed bin Hammam allegedly gave football officials to build support for the bid.  Qatar overcame rival bids from Australia, the US, Japan, and South Korea.

More than A$1.7 Million went into bank accounts controlled by Jack Warner, the disgraced former FIFA VP who was forced to step down in 2011, in order to avoid investigation in a bribery scandal linked to Bin Hammam's campaign for FIFA president.  Bin Hammam was banned from football as a result of that scandal.

FIFA officials are gathered in Sao Paulo for its annual congress, just days before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.  Later this year, they’ll get the results of an inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 bidding races – an investigation led by Michael Garcia, a former US Federal Prosecutor in New York City.  They’re reportedly discussing what they’ll do if the Garcia report recommends a re-vote over the 2022 tournament.