The movers and shakers receiving emailed invites to meet with Blazer while he was staying in a suite at London's five-star May Fair hotel in the summer of 2012 included the men in charge of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids from Russia and Australia. Among those who got Blazer's insistent notes were Alexey Sorokin, head of the Russian bid; Frank Lowy, the head of the Australian bid; Anton Baranov, a secretary for Vitaly Mutko, chairman of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia local organizing committee; and Vitaly Logvin, the president of the international charity fund "For the Future of Fencing."