“All of them will not escape us”. Loretta Lynch
Outwardly, Loretta Lynch are always polite and charming, but the American Minister of Justice may be tough. After a press conference on Thursday (local time) in Washington one hour, the journalists have to wait, the woman in gold shiny shell apologized profusely until – and then bring out the brute sweeping blow against the Fifa
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Another 16 senior officials accuses the Attorney General, on 236 pages, a court in New York listed the allegations in detail. The head of the IRS, Richard Weber, spoke of a “another good day for football fans around the world”.
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Among the new defendants include the former executive member of the World Confederation, Ricardo Teixeira, the Brazilian federation president Marco Polo del Nero (who can rest his post for the time being) and the former Fifa executive member Rafael Salguero of Guatemala. The accused allegedly involved in Bestechung- and corruption offenses amounting to about 200 million dollars. “All of them will not escape us,” Lynch said. She explained that in the morning, eight defendants have pleaded guilty, five of them were not one of the original defendants.
On Thursday morning, the FIFA vice-president Juan Angel Napout were in Zurich arrested from Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit Banegas of Honduras. Among the announced by the authorities of the United States 16 names – all of Central and South Americans – are Napout and Hawit Banegas with the only currently senior Fifa offices
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More arrests in Fifa
“Unbelievable” is the level of corruption, fulminating Lynch – by then a friendly smile and patiently answer all the questions of the journalists again. For the second time within a few months, this petite woman decried as a men’s club Fifa has just messed up the show, only with the arrests before Congress in May, now with the raid on the day the reform debate. It did not go to the big show Lynch effect and headlines, observers say, and colleagues. She was reluctant and had often persuaded to press conferences.
The procedure of criminal investigators is also purely pragmatic – if the Fifa officials all meet in Zurich, the investigators know where they are, and can easily access. Nevertheless, the impression remains that the American justice a headless operating Fifa drives ahead of it. The American authorities seek the extradition of the accused officials – and the investigation is far from complete, as Lynch emphasized
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Lynch: “You can not make things sit out”
“The message of this Communication should any culpable individual be clear, that remains in the dark, in the hope of being able to escape our investigations: You can not sit out the matter, they will not escape our focus. “The future of Fifa doubts Lynch openly. They cared about the “viability of the organization in the future” and also to the sincerity of their efforts for change.
Why Lynch and proceed so tough in this case the American justice seems for European observers at first glance surprising from the perspective of the US authorities, it is clear. For years, the FBI determined already in the matter, Lynch overlooked the case already in its previous position as a prosecutor in Brooklyn.
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The American judicial authorities see themselves as world police and because illegal funds flowed by banks headquartered in New York, they were able to accept the case. "When criminals get their corrupt activities in our country and to our banks, they must adhere to our rules," said Diego Rodriguez from the FBI at Lynch's press conference.
In the United States, the sport has also by far not the aura of the sacred and inviolable, she sometimes gets in extreme football more enthusiastic countries. And the case provides Lynch, the first African-American Attorney General, which it has received in her career many times before with the very rich and powerful among others on Wall Street, the chance to profiling. Finally, it is only since April officially Minister of Justice and has the job first secure only until the end of Obama's second term end of 2016. '/ P>
"an affront to international principles"
In the meantime, it has in terms of Fifa much before. "The judicial authorities are committed, this unbridled corruption that we have discovered in the midst of the management level of international football to an end - not only because of the scale, the audacity and the scope that are needed to obtain such corruption upright, but also because this behavior is an affront to international principles. "
Official of the Central American federation Concacaf:
Alfredo Hawit: Former FIFA vice-president, Executive Member, Concacaf Vice-President and President of the Football Federation of Honduras
Ariel Alvarado: member of the FIFA Disciplinary Komittees, former football-President of Panama
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Rafael Callejas : Member of the FIFA Marketing and TV Committee, President of the Republic of Honduras
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Brayan Jiménez: member of the FIFA Fair Play Committee and President of the Football Federation of Guatemala
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Rafael Salguero: Former Fifa executive member and past president of the Football Federation of Guatemala
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Héctor Trujillo: Secretary General of the Football Federation of Guatemala and judges of the Constitutional Court of the country
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Reynaldo Vasquez: Former President of the Association of San Salvador
Official of the South American federation Conmebol:
Juan Ángel Napout: FIFA Vice-President and Executive Member, CONCACAF President and former President of Paraguay Association
Manuel Burga: Manuel Burga: Mtglied the FIFA Development Committee, former president of the association of Peru
Carlos Chávez : Conmebol-treasurer, former President of Bolivia association
Luís Chiriboga: Association President of Ecuador and Conmebol Executive Member
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Marco Polo del Nero: Brazilian federation president, to resign on November 26, a member of the FIFA Executive Committee
Eduardo Deluca: earlier Conbemol General
José Luis Meiszner: Current Conmebol Secretary General
Romer Osuna: a member of the Audit and Compliance committee of FIFA, CONMEBOL former treasurer
Ricardo Teixeira: Former association president of Brazil and former Fifa executive member
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