FIFA appear determined to end any further investigations into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar.

The football world governing body has dismissed a legal complaint against the report that had cleared the successful bidders of any wrongdoing.

However, FIFA's chief investigator, US lawyer Michael Garcia had appealed against that report and claimed that the summary was "incomplete and erroneous".

In a statement today, FIFA says that the summary judgement of independent judge Hans-Joachim Eckert was "neither legally binding nor appealable" and that Garcia's complaint is "not admissible".

The statement said: "The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J. Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.

"The said statement about the report on the inquiry into the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cup bidding process does not constitute a decision and as such is neither legally binding nor appealable."