The narrowest familiar circle of FIFA President Joseph Blatter gets into the twilight of the corruption scandal.
The nervousness of the International Football Federation (FIFA) is rising around the allegations of corruption. Is heard from the environment of the organization that very soon could pending further revelations. Above all, the closest familiar circle of controversial FIFA President Joseph Blatter gets into the twilight. According to a report of the “New York Times” FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke was the “high-ranking FIFA officials”, of the contract for transfers over ten million dollars from a FIFA account to an account in loud indictment of American prosecutors in 2008 the United States should have initiated.
“autorTxt” Author: Michael Ashelm, editor-in business.
The money was then the former, now for corruption lifetime locked FIFA vice-president Jack Warner arrived from Trinidad and Tobago. Behind the Money Transfer is to stand who had allegedly promised this sum in return for votes in the World Cup won the award in 2004 in view of the 2010 tournament national associations from the Caribbean, the South African Football Association.
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The Fifa confirmed in a statement the transfer of the ten million dollars in 2008. It was from that time approved Chairman of the Finance Committee and completed in accordance with their own regulations. The Competent said Julio Grondona. The Argentines from the Fifa Executive died last year after the World Cup to make it had around him given allegations of corruption again just in the home. FIFA General Secretary Valcke dismissed this Tuesday out that he did not have the authorization for such transfer alone.
In the indictment of Americans said FIFA officials is also not specified as Mitbeschuldigter. This should not even have known about alleged bribery. By FIFA is to know that the money was intended for “development aid” in the Caribbean.
The Ministry of Justice in the United States has requested the extradition of former functionary Warner in Trinidad and Tobago. He is accused of organized crime, corruption and money laundering. Warner, a former member of parliament, had been set in his home last week after a court hearing on bail of 2.5 million dollars on free foot.
© Reuters Jack Warner: counter on bail
Jack Warner: counter on bail
In the matter but to ask questions. South Africa’s football representatives vacate the payment, which ran on the Fifa, one. In their view, however, it was an issue for a “Development Fund” in the Caribbean. The former head of the World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, Danny Jordaan, said the money was, however, no bribery of FIFA against an indictment of the American judicial authorities. There had been paid to the Football Confederation of North and Central America and the Caribbean in order to promote the sport there. Warner was at that time president of the Confederacy.
Jordaan, who is also president of the South African Football Association, said at the weekend already, the money had been taken directly from a payment of Fifa to host the World Cup in South Africa. Since South Africa was in 2004 awarded the contract, it could hardly be to act in the payment four years later for bribery, he further argued. Was it a bribe would be also to clarify why the casting of the votes per 2004 South Africa, only four years later, the payment should have flowed.
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