Qatari bribes

"Today, the Telegraph is reporting that Warner and two of his sons were paid millions by companies owned by bin Hammam, who is Qatari. A payment of $1.2 million to Warner was made just two weeks after Qatar won the World Cup bid, and several more payments followed. There's an American element, too: a bank in the Cayman Islands refused to process one of the payments "amid fears over the legality of the money transfer," so a bank in New York did it instead."