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- Jerome Valcke is no longer Secretary of the World Association Fifa. The 54-year-old is accused of enriching with World Cup tickets. The case will now be examined by the ethics committee.
- Before a ticket dealers had submitted new evidence against the Fifa. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar comes into view.
- The allegations are likely to investigating authorities in Switzerland and the US are interested in.
The situation around the football’s world governing body Fifa comes to a head. While the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s witnesses to a TV contract hears the Fifa boss Sepp Blatter in 2005 was sufficient for a ridiculously low price to fellow board members Jack Warner, the association has been active on Thursday night itself and gave birth to its Secretary General Jerome Valcke, 54, with immediate effect from all . Tasks
The Fifa had “received a number of allegations of knowledge relating to the Secretary-General,” it said in a press release; a “formal investigation by the ethics committee” was arranged. Whether the allegations with the Zurich-based marketing agency JB Sports Marketing related, has not been confirmed. Representatives of the long-standing World Cup ticket retailer had raised serious allegations against Fifa peak at a presentation on Thursday.
The US Department of Justice and the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office are expanding their investigation into Fifa corruption scandal. More and more individuals and organizations come into focus.
Committed profit sharing
So to before the 2006 World Cup in Germany a ticket agency chief money from employees have called for in order to pass it on Blatter. Moreover, the JB-representative put a ticketing contract before they had sealed with FIFA for the World Cups from 2010 to 2022 and was allegedly promised a discrete profit-sharing in the context of General Secretary Valcke.
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In the course of business activities in 2010 Valcke said to have repeatedly announced, that Qatar was the 2022 World Cup firmly pledged; three direct witnesses confirm the statement. The tournament was later, in December 2010, in fact awarded to Qatar. All the accused deny the charges.
Valcke was unavailable for inquiries because of a trip to Russia, but let the English media report that he had nothing to reproach himself. The ticket business is complex, the processes are often opaque. This billion are moved, a lot of money currents flow in cash.
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An accusation that the JB now rises, falls into the time of the 2006 World Cup for this tournament had the Fifa the hospitality business with Toptickets, accommodation and all-round support for sponsors and guests a specially created agency entrusted: ISE. This company grew out of the braid of an old FIFA Partners, the major Japanese agency Dentsu . Their top managers Haruyuki Takahashi had the ISE established, with the help of the American Benny Alon.
A native of Israel former professional soccer player Alon is Blazed in the ticket business since the nineties with the JB Sports Marketing. The new ISE was awarded the contract against other, more experienced competitors; it paid 270 million Swiss francs for 350 000. Ticket packages in the first category. Two thirds of the goods were sold afloat, the ISE brought loud employees about 400 million euros in. A great business – but then came the bizarre. The ISE returned the remaining third, 110,000 tickets – without one-third of the money corresponding to reclaim that she had paid for the entire rights package. According to a presented in Zurich sales list Among the returned tickets were tens of thousands of tickets for the top matches of the World Cup in Germany. The whereabouts of thousands of these cards is not completely clarified until today; the way through the gray and black markets has occupied for years German authorities.
Alon and other ISE employees saw themselves then deceived and wanted to move against the ISE-tip to Takahashi to war. For a process they provided affidavits. So Alon, 2005, in Frankfurt on oath on, Takahashi had called in August 2003, “I put two million euros to the side that he needs to pay a personal gratification for Joseph Blatter, the Fifa president, in return, because FIFA had accepted the ISE AG as successful candidates for the 2006 World Cup. ” He had refused the desire. Takahashi, who was one of the most powerful sports managers around the world, has the accusations.
“Wicked allegations”
He had demanded never money for Blatter and “never money to Mr Blatter paid”. But no evidence exists. What exists are the payments made under oath testimony of former ISE Manager, the JB now presented international media. Blatter sent a message to:.. “The FIFA President has requested or received money in relation to the award of the hospitality rights for the 2006 World Cup at any time Any allegations are false, malicious and defamatory person expressing such allegations, has legal consequences expect. “
The time is imminent litigation among the ticket agents, for the ISE Manager anfertigten these statements, did not materialize. According to Alon and JB agency chief Heinz Schild, a Swiss lawyer, the company agreed instead with the FIFA 2010 on a contract, the purchase of each 8700 tickets for the World Cup tournaments in 2010 (South Africa), 2014 (Brazil), 2018 and 2022 assured. But direct negotiating partner was not Fifa Exclusive Agency Match Ticketing . . But: FIFA general Valcke
From the present contracts, emails and subsidiary agreements are characterized by the JB-people, as their contract was supplemented with Valcke to more 2400 First Class tickets from the 2014 World Cup – where the Topfunktionär a Fifty-fifty split of profits from these cards had been promised. Shield and Alon presented in Zurich even have a suitcase full of money, he intends to have packed a tranche of money for Valcke. But who had moved shortly handover. Emails, who presented the accusers, support this impression.
the end of 2013, the Agency’s intervened
money flowed at the end of any of the parties. The end of 2013 reached instead still the agency match and took over the hitherto discreetly held contract with reference to the strict legal position in Brazil. match did not meet but supposedly the JB guaranteed obligations. Instead of 11,000 hospitality packages, the JB-customers received only 7,500 tickets “behind the gates in the back row” (Alon). Since JB fighting for lost tickets and millions. After fruitless negotiations with Fifa and match , so Alon, you have now chosen the course to the public.
accusations and documents should also investigating authorities in Switzerland and the US are interested , Among them, a passage which is located in JBs Fifa ticket contract and the Agency, the number of tickets for 2022 only assures, if the World Cup taking place in the United States. After signature, so Alon, Valcke had him opened that this World Cup Qatar had already promised. Months later to Valcke have this repeated in a local Zurich, this time in front of witnesses. One stood ready on Thursday: The Geneva banker Marco Vitali confirmed the process
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