German Football League warns of split from FIFA if corruption report not published

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Dr. Reinhard Rauball, president of the German Football League, claims the UEFA will split from FIFA if Michael Garcia's full investigation into 2018 and 2022 bids for the World Cup is not published.

"Not only must the decision of the ethics committee be published, but Mr Garcia's bill of indictment too, so it becomes clear what the charges were and how they were judged," Rauball told the German website Kicker.de.

FIFA's ethics committee judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, published an investigation into corruption among countries bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Thursday. Russia and Qatar were cleared of any claims of wrongdoing.

The same day the report was released, U.S. attorney Michael Garcia, who worked on the investigation for two years, spoke out against the final report. Garcia's version ran several hundred pages, and the results are not known. Eckert's version was only 42 pages, and he told BBC Sport "a lot of my report was word for word from the Garcia report." Garcia called Eckert's version "incomplete" and "erroneous."

Rauball wants to see the original version of the report, or he says the UEFA may cut ties with FIFA. FIFA members want to know if bribery or other claims of corruption are valid.