GENEVA—A spying operation on behalf of World Cup host Qatar bugged a 2017 hotel meeting between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Switzerland’s then-attorney general during an investigation of soccer officials, Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung said Sunday.
The report said intelligence operatives linked to a former CIA officer wiretapped a meeting involving Infantino and Swiss federal prosecutor Michael Lauber at a Qatari-owned hotel in Bern, which also then housed the emirate’s embassy.
Swiss Federal Attorney Michael Lauber speaks at a press conference in Bern, Switzerland, on Sept. 25, 2019. (Peter Schneider/Keystone via AP)
The NZZ report said documents and sources showed the surveillance was carried out for “Project Matterhorn”—named for the iconic Swiss mountain—to gather material on Lauber….