Fifa to review World Cup corruption investigation to open door for re-running of Russia and Qatar's winning bids Fifa was forced into an embarrassing climbdown over its World Cup corruption inquiry on Thursday after it agreed to consider letting its executive committee see the full findings from the investigation. The game's world governing body confirmed it was ready to lift the veil of secrecy over the report produced by its chief investigator, Michael J Garcia, into the bidding process for the tournaments in Russia and Qatar, which it had previously sought to suppress. Giving Fifa's executive committee access to the full report would allow its members to ascertain for themselves whether they should follow the recommendation of its head judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, who ruled it did not contain enough evidence to justify re-running the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes. The about-turn followed showdown talks between Garcia and Eckert, who met in Zurich in a bid to end their week-long feud over a summary of the document published last Thursday. The ethics committee chairmen agreed to allow the head of Fifa's audit and compliance committee, Domenico Scala, access to Garcia's full report, giving him the power to determine how much of it executives such as Sepp Blatter get to see. However, it is understood there was no agreement between Garcia and Eckert over whether the American's findings should be made public, meaning his appeal against the "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts" in the German's 42-page summary will continue. If successful, Eckert would be forced to produce a revised summary more in keeping with Garcia's original 430-page submission. Thursday's summit meeting between Garcia and Eckert followed Tuesday's revelation that suspected criminal activity took place ahead of the vote which determined the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.