Reports say that the President of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), Mr. Gianni Infantino was spied on by last year’s World Cup host country , Qatar during a meeting with former Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber.
A Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung was quoted as reporting that a meeting between Infantino and his compatriot Lauber at a Qatari-owned hotel in Bern on June 16 in 2017 .
The meeting was secretly recorded when a confidential meeting was wiretapped with the help of former agents from the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency in what was termed “Project Matterhorn”.
At the time, the Schweizerhof also housed Qatar’s Embassy in9 Switzerland and Lauber was investigating corruption in football, including alleged irregularities in the 2010 vote to award the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar.
Lauber resigned as Swiss Attorney General in 2020 after he was found to have covered up a meeting with Infantino.
FIFA said that Infantino had no knowledge of being the subject of an espionage attempt.
