Geneva

RUSSIA and Qatar could lose the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if evidence is found of corruption in the bidding process, a Fifa official was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The comments by the head of Fifa's auditing and compliance committee came as bribery claims mounted against disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, the man at the heart of the scandal engulfing football's world body.