Zurich: FIFA will investigate the substance of reported allegations by the former head of England's Football Association (FA) over a Russian-Spanish bribery conspiracy, general secretary Jerome Valcke said on Tuesday.
Asked whether FIFA's ethics committee would simply investigate David Triesman or the comments themselves, Valcke replied: "Both."
Triesman quit as England's 2018 World Cup bid chief and FA chairman on Sunday after British newspaper the Mail on Sunday reported secretly recorded comments.
Triesman was quoted as saying that rival bidders Spain and Russia were conspiring to bribe referees at next month's World Cup in South Africa. The alleged comments badly damaged England's bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
FIFA said on Monday that its ethics committee would investigate the comments.
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