Fifa scandal: World Cup in France and South Africa had bought – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The corruption scandal in football’s world governing body Fifa always also affects. The former Fifa official Chuck Blazer confessed against the US Justice that he and other officials taking bribes for their votes in the 1998 World Cup and 2010. This is clear from his statements of 2013 that were published on Wednesday in New York. Blazer is star witness for the US authorities.

Thus, accepted the award at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa of today 70-year-old blazers and other members of the FIFA Executive Committee bribes.

Even before the award of the World Cup tournament in France in 1998, it should have come to irregularities. The final 17 years ago in France was not yet come under suspicion. From the indictment against Blazers in 2013 shows that he and other officials were allegedly bribed by applicants Morocco. Nevertheless triumphed at the end France and could host the World Cup.

Previously, has already been disclosed that the FBI found in Russia and 2022 in Qatar because of the award procedure of the Games in 2018. On Tuesday, the “New York Times” and ABC News have consistently reported that even Fifa boss Joseph Blatter had fallen in the crosshairs of the FBI.

Transmission Rights of Gold Cups were smeared

Swiss authorities had taken on 27 May seven high-ranking football officials in Zurich in custody pending extradition. Also as a consequence of this scandal Blatter had announced his resignation on Tuesday

According to the testimony of Blazer are also available for the broadcasting rights of the Gold Cups -. The American-Caribbean version of the Champions League – in 1996, 1998 , 2000, 2002 and 2003, bribes flowed.

Blazer was for many years secretary general of CONCACAF, the federation for North and Central America and the Caribbean, and from 1996 to 2013 a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

According to the indictment by the US Department of Justice, he was cooperative and said to have included, inter alia at the Olympic Games 2012 in London in secret official discussions. In his testimony to Blazer also known fraud against FIFA and the tax owed.

2013, he came to a deposit in the amount of ten million dollars on free foot. Blazer is seriously ill with cancer and is, according to the “New York Times” currently in a New York hospital.