The inquiry by former US attorney Michael Garcia was set up by FIFA to tackle claims of corruption in the bid process for the 2018/2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar.

FIFA released an edited version of the report in 2014 which was dismissed as a cover-up after it found no evidence of corruption by the winning bids, but the full details – including Australia's role – had been kept under wraps.

Now a leaked version given to a German newspaper has prompted FIFA to release the full report this morning.

It accuses former FFA chief executive Ben Buckley and chairman Sir Frank Lowy of bending the rules to buy influence from FIFA Executive Committee members in the race to host the 2018 or 2022 tournaments.

The bid specifically targeted Franz Beckenbauer, CONCACAF's Jack Warner, Oceania's Reynald Temarii and the four African nations on FIFA's ExCo – Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Egypt – which were offered millions in Australian government aid.

The Australian side to the probe – which also examined the Qatar, Russian, England and USA bids – centres on the recruitment of Peter Hargitay as a consultant.

His past comes under close scrutiny as a former advisor to FIFA general secretary Sepp Blatter and his links to Beckenbauer's right hand man Fedor Radmann and Warner - now banned from football for life and facing charges in the US for wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering.

The report quotes from a series of emails from Hargitay which reveal the cloak and dagger details of the bid including hiring Radmann as another consultant via a third party company amid an apparent series of public lies over the connection.

At times the emails become absurd when Hargitay berates others for being too transparent while spelling out the subterfuge in his own emails.

It reveals Hargitay was secretly copying in Radman on all his emails – but Hargitay blew that secret when he repeatedly mentioned it in emails.

Radmann was allegedly key to getting Beckenbauer onside for the Australian bid, as part a backroom deal for Australia not to compete against Germany for the Women's World Cup at the time.

Radmann is said to have been on a $2m+ bonus if Australia secured the 2018 World Cup but around half that amount if it won the 2022 bid instead.

The report also reveals the extent to which Warner tried to con the Australian bid out of millions, which was stopped by the former FFA Head of Performance, John Boultbee.

After opposing an initial $500,000 grant to Warner for a Center of Excellence (which was still paid by the FFA), Warner then tried to pressure the FFA for $4.5m to begin work on renovating the CoE stadium in Trinidad.

The $500,000 FFA cheque - hand-delivered to Warner by Hargitay – was later found to have been put into a personal acount by Warner that was disguised as an official CONCACAF fund. It was also later revealed Warner owned the CoE ground.

The FFA were prepared to invest in the project with the help of the Australian government - but Boultbee stood firm against Warner and Hargitay that nothing would be paid before FIFA voted on the World Cup bids.

In an angry email exchange, Hargitay warned the FFA the deal with Warner would fall through unless the cash was paid immediately.

"Jack will not wait until January for installments to flow," wrote Hargitay. "The initial AUD 500 have been recognised as support but certainly will not do the trick.

"I'd hate to loose [sic] because we put bureaucracy before pro- action."

Hargitay also helped organise a bizarre friendly between Trinidad and Tobago's U21s and Australian U21s in Cyprus which saw costs rapidly escalate as Warner's demands became greater.

Emails reveal Hargitay at one stage offered to put the bill through his own FFA-funded consultancy expenses budget as "marketing costs" to keep them off the official ledger.

In the end though the FFA footed a $90,000 bill for the nine days of hotel accommodation and flights for the team and officials which was condemned by the FIFA report.

The extent of the money involved in trying to rig a World Cup bid is revealed in the FFA talks with Oceania Football Confederation. Lowy is said to have offered a package worth $8m in Government aid to the Pacific nations.

That figure was dismissed as "peanuts" by OFC official Reynald Temarii compared to what was allegedly on offer from other rival bids, although he said the OFC would still have backed the Australian bid if Temarii, their representative on the ExCo, had not been suspended before the vote.

Elsewhere former SBS World Game host Les Murray - a friend of fellow Hungarian Hargitay - is accused of giving the consultant information from his role on the FIFA Ethics Committee.

The report says: "On January 7, 2009, FIFA Ethics Committee member Les Murray forwarded Mr. Hargitay an email he had sent to the Chair of the Ethics Committee, Sebastian Coe, asking to discuss potentially investigating certain conduct by England’s bid team.

"Mr. Hargitay then forwarded the email to Australia 2022 Chairman Frank Lowy along with the message: “Boom. Here we go:):)”

The report also says Hargitay used his connection with Blatter to smear Qatar's bid in a direct email to the FIFA capo, which is strictly against the rules of the bidding, but the move is said to have delighted Frank Lowy.

Former FFA Head of Corporate Affairs Bonita Mersiades's attempts to lift the lid on the bid are dismissed by the report over alleged inconsistencies between her version and official documents.

In the report she was dubbed AW – for Australian Whistleblower – but her previous job title was spelled out, robbing her of any anonymity.

In its defence, the FFA told FIFA they were simply following the rules of the bid process in trying to develop the sport to leave a legacy for the game from their bid.
 

Today the FFA admitted they had made mistakes in their bid but added: "As the report says, FFA provided “full and valuable co-operation” to the inquiry and former FFA officials involved with the bid co-operated with this and other inquiries into the bid process over the past several years.
 
"The report does not raise substantive new matters that have not already been the subject of other inquiries and/or media coverage since 2009/2010.  It does, however, contain further detail such as email correspondence provided to the inquiry by FFA. The report also states that “the Investigatory Chamber does not intend to pursue formal investigatory proceedings against any individual bid team member.”
 
"FFA reiterates that the financial management of the bid was routinely reported to Government and reviewed by independent external auditors. Its payment to CONCACAF was also investigated by the Australian Federal Police which found that no Commonwealth offence was identified.
 
"FFA has said repeatedly that the bid process for 2018 and 2022 was deeply flawed and that mistakes were made by the Australian bid team.
 
"However, FFA notes that FIFA continues to reform its governance, including relating to future tournament bids, and is confident mistakes of the past will not be repeated."