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FIFA’s ethics committee was challenged to look into the roles Prince William Windsor and Prime Minister David Cameron played in the illegal vote trading which saw Chung Mong Joon banned for six years yesterday.
Chung allegedly proposed to swap his vote in the 2018 ballot in return for support for South Korea in the 2022 vote, involving England’s 2018 bid.
In the supposed meeting, Cameron and Windsor were reportedly present along with the 2018 bid leader Geoff Thompson.
Earlier this week, Chung said: “This allegedly happened when I last met Geoff Thompson when together we paid a courtesy visit on William Windsor at the prince’s request in his suite at Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich on 1 December 2010, one day before the vote. When I went to the prince’s suite, Prime Minister Cameron was also there.”
And Chung went on to add that should he be banned — the South Korean initially thought he would face a 15-year suspension — then Cameron and Windsor should also be investigated by the ethics committee for their role in the meeting.
“There was myself, four ambassadors, Cameron and Thompson,” he said. “Do you think it is possible to have illicit vote trading in such company?
“If they think so, Fifa should try all those people.”
Chung denies that any vote-trading took place and that it was Thompson who confessed to the illicit pact.
“In the transcript, Thompson does not even remember whether Windsor was present when he and I and PM Cameron were allegedly making this deal,” he added.
