Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: World Cup 2018 & 2022: More bidding process corruption claims 
  
 More allegations of corruption during the bidding process to stage the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 have been made. 
  
 The House of Commons Culture Media and Sport select committee has published previously unseen material submitted to it by the Sunday Times newspaper. 
  
 It draws on claims by senior sources that officials connected to England's bid for the 2018 World Cup ran an intelligence-gathering operation against rival nations. 
  
 Russia and Qatar won the bids. 
  
 BBC sports editor Dan Roan "Closure for Fifa seems a long, long way off. This tawdry saga shows no sign of abating, and it shames the game - and those that run it." Read more 
  
 This submission by the Sunday Times outlines how England 2018 executives compiled a database of rumours and intelligence - gathered by private companies and, significantly, British embassies. 
  
 There is, however, no clear evidence supplied by the paper. 
  
 Instead, its submission provides detailed accounts of how votes were allegedly bought and sold in the build-up to the December 2010 poll - and how Fifa's opaque rules for bidding nations were exploited. 
  
 The paper claims Russia's President Vladimir Putin played a major role in his country's winning bid, even, it says, enlisting Fifa's president Sepp Blatter to help lobby for votes. 
  
 Another claim suggests the Russia bid had lobbied for the support of Michel Platini - the Uefa president and voter - by giving him a painting believed to have been a Picasso. 
  
 There are also allegations about Qatar, and how its dominance in the natural gas industry helped it secure votes through bilateral trade deals. 
  
 Russia, the 2018 World Cup hosts, and Qatar, who will hold the 2022 tournament, have always denied any wrongdoing, and a recent, albeit disputed, summary of a Fifa inquiry cleared them. 
  
 The Football Association said in a statement: "The Fifa Ethics Committee made specific requests and responding to these requests involved searching in excess of 500,000 documents. 
  
 "The search parameters were established with Mr Garcia's office. The documents searched included intelligence gathered by the bid team. All documents within the search parameters were disclosed. 
  
 "In addition Andy Anson has confirmed that any intelligence that he believed could be substantiated was shared with Mr Garcia in his interview and that everything else was hearsay, gossip and rumour." 
  
 Culture Media and Sport select committee chairman John Whittingdale MP has told BBC Sport that, in light of the Sunday Times submission, he would like to hear from FA executives to ascertain if the 'database' exists and, if so, for them to outline its contents. ||||| Story highlights Further allegations published around award of 2018 and 2022 World Cups 
  
 UK parliamentary committee reveals details of a 'secret dossier' obtained by the Sunday Times 
  
 Dossier was allegedly commissioned by failed 2018 England bid 
  
 Claims made over using priceless art as inducement by Russia 2018 bid 
  
 Expensive works of art offered as inducements are at the center of the latest series of damaging allegations around the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, a published report claimed. 
  
 A painting, believed to be a Picasso, was allegedly gifted to Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president and FIFA executive member Michel Platini in return for his support for the eventually successful Russian bid for the 2018 global showpiece. 
  
 Another FIFA voting member, Michel D'Hooghe, from Belgium, was also the recipient of a landscape painting, given to him in a package wrapped in brown paper by Viacheslav Koloskov, a former Russian executive committee member working for his nation's attempt to host the 2018 tournament, it is alleged in a report in The Sunday Times. 
  
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 "Allegations' in the Sunday Times relating to my actions in the 2018 and 2022 bidding processes are total fabrications," said former French international star Platini. 
  
 "The matter has now been passed to my legal advisers." 
  
 D'Hooghe told the Sunday Times that he believed the painting given to him, was "absolutely ugly" and he believed it had no value. He said he had not voted for the Russian bid. 
  
 The newspaper's latest revelations are based on evidence it supplied to a UK parliamentary committee, which itself has been investigating the circumstances around the award of the World Cup host countries, particularly in the light of England's failed bid for the 2018 competition. 
  
 The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) has now published details of the investigations by the Sunday Times which claim the England bid commissioned "high-level intelligence gathering and and surveillance on the other countries bidding to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups." 
  
 It also claims England's bid used private security companies and a former member of the UK government's intelligence service MI6 to gather information on its rivals. 
  
 The previously unreported material contains a series of claims around the role allegedly played by Russian President Vladimir Putin in making sure his country would host football's premier competition, hard on the heels of winning the rights to stage the Sochi Winter Olympics earlier this year. 
  
 It claims that Putin was initially skeptical about Russia's bid but had later thrown his full weight behind the process. "He (Putin) took a personal interest in the running of the bid in mid-2010," the committee report reveals. 
  
 Under the heading, "Intelligence relating to Russia 2018" a series of allegations are revealed about Putin's role in brokering a major bilateral trade deal for gas with Qatar, the winners of the 2022 bid, in exchange for each others votes and the votes of others of their supporters. 
  
 The allegations also detail the plundering of Russia's national art collection, either from the vaults of the State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg or the Kremlin archives, as alleged kickbacks to Platini and D'Hooghe. 
  
 In a statement given to CNN, officials behind the Russian bid have also strongly denied any wrongdoing. 
  
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 "Russia 2018 categorically rejects all of the allegations made in the Sunday Times today as entirely unfounded speculation," it said. 
  
 "These allegations are not new, but the evidence has only ever indicated that Russia 2018 behaved professionally and fairly throughout the bidding process. 
  
 "The Russia 2018 Bid Committee operated in full compliance with the spirit and letter of FIFA's Code of Ethics, and sought to abide by the FIFA bidding guidelines at all times. 
  
 "This kind of speculation will not affect Russia 2018's focus on doing what we have been doing for nearly four years already: making great progress towards our objective of hosting the best ever FIFA World Cup in 2018." 
  
 The alleged pivotal role of FIFA president Sepp Blatter in the bidding process is also highlighted in the published reports of the DCMS and the Sunday Times. 
  
 The claim is made that Blatter and Putin "jointly 'hit the phones' to drum up votes for Russia on the eve of the secret ballot in Zurich on December 2, 2010." 
  
 Blatter was "absolutely committed" to the Russian bid it was said. 
  
 Earlier this month, football's world governing body published a report that cleared Russia and Qatar of any wrongdoing in their winning of the hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. 
  
 But within hours of the announcement, Michael Garcia, the U.S. attorney who had led the investigation, went public with his disappointment at the findings, labeling them "incomplete and erroneous" and claiming that his work had been misrepresented. 
  
 The saga took a further twist when FIFA later announced it had lodged a criminal complaint in the Swiss courts into the "possible misconduct of individual persons in connection with the awarding of the hosting rights of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup." 
  
 FIFA told CNN Sunday that it was unable to comment on the specific allegations in the DCMS and Sunday Times reports. 
  
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 "Matters related to the 2018/2022 inquiry are solely handled by the Investigatory Chamber of the independent FIFA Ethics Committee," it said. 
  
 "Therefore we are not in a position to comment on on-going proceedings nor on names and other information circulated in the media, particularly as we do not know against which individuals and for what reasons investigations are in process nor do we know the details of what is actually in the investigation reports." 
  
 It added: "The independent Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee Domenico Scala is currently evaluating the matter to decide on the next steps including the compiling of relevant information from the investigation which needs to be provided to the FIFA Executive Committee. 
  
 "In parallel, the entire reports have been provided to the Swiss General Attorney. As such, FIFA has no further comment for the time-being." 
  
 Meanwhile, the English Football Association also responded Sunday to the reports, claiming that the 2018 bid chairman Andy Anson and his team had fully co-operated with the original FIFA investigation. 
  
 "The Fifa Ethics Committee made specific requests and responding to these requests involved searching in excess of 500,000 documents," the Guardian newspaper reported. 
  
 "The search parameters were established with Mr Garcia's office. The documents searched included intelligence gathered by the bid team. All documents within the search parameters were disclosed." 
  
 It added that Anson had only shared with Garcia information that could be substantiated. "Everything else was hearsay, gossip and rumor," it added. 
  
 The UK Parliament is set to debate the findings of the DCMS report Monday. |||||
Student:
There's regular corruption, and then there's over-the-top Teapot Dome-style bribery. The latter is what took place ahead of the controversial decision to award the 2018 and 2022 soccer World Cups to Russia and Qatar, according to a report submitted to British lawmakers. The report compiled by the Sunday Times claims "high-level intelligence gathering and surveillances" conducted in part by British embassies revealed wrongdoing, including a vote-swapping conspiracy between Russia and Qatar and the bribing of committee members with fine paintings allegedly taken from the Kremlin archives or a St. Petersburg museum, CNN reports. The report says Vladimir Putin took an active role in supporting the Russian bid, which was moved forward with the help of a huge gas deal with Qatar. Key FIFA voting member Michel Platini was given a Picasso painting in return for supporting the Russian bid, according to the report, while another member admits being given a painting but says it was "absolutely ugly" and he believed it worthless. Russia and Qatar have both denied persistent reports of wrongdoing in relations to the bid, and they were recently cleared by a hotly contested FIFA probe, reports the BBC, which notes that while the latest reports of corruption may be brushed off, the "tawdry saga shows no sign of abating" for world soccer authorities. (As Qatar prepares for the 2022 Cup, Amnesty International warns that migrant workers building its infrastructure are being exploited and thousands could die in the race to complete construction projects.)