Swiss-based Australian sportswear executive Jamie Fuller, who is spearheading an anti-corruption campaign that has resulted in major FIFA sponsors such as Coca-Cola and Visa calling for integrity reforms, has made a public submission to a Senate committee on foreign bribery in which he casts doubt over the integrity and governance of Football Federation Australia's bid to host a world cup.

Mr Fuller's submission comes with FIFA in turmoil following Friday night's decision by Swiss authorities to open a criminal investigation into FIFA president Sepp Blatter over alleged improper payments to Mr Warner, the long-time boss of Caribbean football, and to a FIFA European powerbroker.

The FFA is also facing serious questions over its supervision of Mr Hargitay, who was being paid $1.45 million by taxpayers to devise Australia's unsuccessful 2022 World Cup bid, at the same time as being paid $500,000 by the driving force of Qatar's successful bid, former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam.

Mr Hargitay was working in 2009 for Mr Bin Hammam to secure his re-election as Asia's representative on a powerful FIFA committee and organised a dirty tricks campaign to discredit his rival. Leaked emails and invoices sent by Mr Hargitay show him claiming broadcaster SBS and its doyen commentator, Les Murray, were working closely with him.

Mr Murray strongly denies any suggestion by Mr Hargitay that the pair were working together in 2009 on Mr Bin Hammam's behalf.

Mr Fuller has urged the Senate committee to ask the FFA why a Travelex cheque, which was sent from London to New York before ending up with the Bank of Trinidad, was used to make a $462,000 donation to upgrade a Caribbean football stadium.

Authorities are investigating allegations Mr Warner stole the money. Mr Warner denies the claim.

Mr Fuller's submission stated that given soccer was an international sport, the FFA would have been used to making "a large number of international payments, presumably by ordinary banking arrangements".

"Why was this particular [Caribbean] payment made by way of a Travelex cheque, via London and New York, rather than by ordinary banking arrangements?" he asked.

"Did FFA make any other payments in relation to the bid in this fashion? Is so what and to whom?"

A FFA spokesman said Travelex was asked to arrange for a bank draft of $500,000 to be drawn up in the UK and made out to Confederation of North and Central America and Caribbean Association Football. The draft was to be taken from London to Trinidad by the FFA's bid consultant, Mr Hargitay.

There was nothing unusual about the re-routing of funds via New York, the spokesman said, because this was where the Bank of Trinidad had a US account.

"This was an electronic transfer of the funds and not a function of FFA directing it to be re-routed via New York. FFA received confirmation the draft had been presented and the funds deposited into CONCACAF's bank account with Bank of Trinidad.

He said he was not aware if Travelex was used for other payments, but added "funds were distributed in multiple ways depending on timing and banking arrangements of various recipients."

Mr Fuller, founder and chief executive of compression sportswear brand SKINS, also raised the $15 million of taxpayer funds paid by the FFA to three European consultants hired to devise and execute strategy for Australia's bid.

He urged the committee to question the FFA over the $151,250 paid each month for two years to German lobbyist Fedor Radmann and to investigate whether any of this money went to any FIFA executive committee members in 2009 and 2010.

The $60,000 per month paid to controversial bid strategist, Mr Hargitay was also worthy of further scrutiny, Mr Fuller stated, as was the $8 million paid to a colleague of Mr Radmann's to devise Australia's official "bid book".

A UK parliamentary inquiry into FIFA has also heard from the former senior FFA executive Bonita Mersiades, who was forced out of her job after directly questioning Australia's consultants about probity matters.

Giving evidence in London last week, Ms Mersiades said the FFA had decided that because Australia had no one on FIFA's executive committee, it needed to hire consultants with connections to the right people to stand a chance.

"The services that the consultants provided was about currying favour; knowing what would make the executive committee members happy; what buttons you needed to press to try to get their vote," she said.

"What became clear to me is that we were in effect running two bids; one was a public one, which I prosecuted, about it being fun, relaxed, safe and secure. I still say that Australia would host a great World Cup. The other one was the one that went on behind closed doors."