There is “comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming” evidence that FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials during his presidential campaign and that Jack Warner was “an accessory to corruption”, according to a secret report by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Mohamed Bin Hammam today wrote to FIFA to protest about his treatment at the hands of the organisation.

Mohamed Bin Hammam arrived at FIFA’s headquarters today to face an ethics committee hearing on bribery charges, hours after withdrawing from the presidential election.

Sepp Blatter will appear before FIFA’s ethics committee on Sunday to answer charges that he knew about alleged cash payments, the world governing body announced today.

TWO of football’s most powerful figures have been accused of handing over bundles of US dollar bills in the most serious corruption crisis that FIFA have ever faced.

FIFA’s corruption crisis deepened today after a dramatic announcement that vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam have been charged with offering bribes for votes.

FIFA’s ethics chiefs are to investigate claims of ’vote-buying’ in a bitter contest for one of the 23 seats on the world governing body’s all-powerful executive committee.