• Damian Collins MP uses parliamentary privilege to raise concerns[br]• Leaked letter claims Sheikh Salman spent £1.6m on 2009 election runSheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa,the favourite to replace Sepp Blatter as the president of Fifa, has been accused of using football development money to fund an earlier election campaign amid calls in parliament for an urgent investigation into a fresh alleged “cash for votes” scandal.
The Asian Football Confederation president, and whose campaign has been dogged by strenuously denied allegations by human rights groups relating to the 2011 pro-democracy uprising in Bahrain,faces fresh claims that in 2009 he used Fifa-financed sports development budgets to fund his unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the Fifa executive committee.
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Source: theguardian.com