FIFA President Gianni Infantino received an undisclosed payment of $1.72 million from the U.S.-based nonprofit entity that ran the 2026 World Cup.

Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, received an undisclosed one-time payment of $1.72 million from the U.S.-based nonprofit entity that ran the 2026 World Cup, IRS documents made public Tuesday revealed.

Britain's The Times was the first to report the undisclosed payments as part of an investigation into financial documents linked to Infantino.

The investigation found that FWC2026, the company set up to run this year's World Cup events in the United States, listed a $1.72 million payment in compensation to Infantino on its IRS Form 990 for the 2024 tax year. This compensation was in addition to Infantino's regular salary and benefits for 2024, which was $4.86 million.

USA Today reported the payment possibly violates a FIFA statute that says that "the individual compensation of the FIFA president, the members of the council and the FIFA secretary general shall be made public."

A FIFA spokesperson told ESPN that the organization "fully complies with all reporting requirements and strongly rejects any suggestion there has been a violation of FIFA's statutes."

"FIFA does not pay a second salary to the FIFA president and complies with all reporting requirements in relation to compensation. The FIFA president's annual compensation, as well as other contractural benefits, are decided by the independent Compensation Sub-Committee.