Almajid: I’ll always be in fear

A whistleblower who made corruption allegations against the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid claims she will live the rest of her life in fear after receiving threats against her and her children.

Phaedra Almajid, who worked for the Qatar 2022 bid team before losing her job in 2010, provided evidence of wrongdoing to Michael Garcia’s independent inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.

Her evidence was given on condition of anonymity — a condition she believes was deliberately breached in a summary of Garcia’s report published by Fifa ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert last week.