The Qatari team for the controversial winning bid to host the 2022 World Cup offered large sums of money to senior African soccer figures for their respective federations, claims former communications director Phaedra Almajid.

Almajid gave evidence under condition of anonymity to the FIFA inquiry into the corruption allegations surrounding the 2018 and 2022 bid races led by American former federal prosecutor Michael Garcia. But she was controversially outed by FIFA's ethics chief Hans-Joachim Eckert.

Michael Garcia (left) and Joachim Eckert in 2012. Credit:AP

Almajid told weekly soccer magazine France Football she had been present when offers were made.

However, she did not witness money changing hands.