The former FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo has admitted the existence of an extensive network of corruption in South American football. After his extradition on Christmas Eve from Switzerland a judge ruled in his native Uruguay, he is taken to the central prison of the capital Montevideo for corruption and money laundering, as prosecutor Juan Gómez told.
Figueredo had acknowledged that he had received “large sums of money,” said Gómez – it is to concern million amounts. This he then invested elsewhere. He is said to have also acknowledged that ten presidents of the national associations have collected bribe in South America. Figueredo from 1993 to 2013 Vice President of the South American Football Association COMNEBOL, since 2013 President.
As the lawyer further stated that the corruption network should have been created fraudulently during CONMEBOL for information of the functionary. According to the investigators by any competition has been made impossible by Markting- and TV rights to the continental federation tournaments. Alone the clubs and professionals in Uruguay had been deceived by the bribes on CONMEBOL level to substantial sums.
Clubs blackmailed
The 83-year-old also stressed Gorka Villar hard member of the 15-member FIFA Reform Committee. The son of FIFA vice-president Angel Maria Villar is currently director general of the South American Union – he is said to have blackmailed Uruguayan teams, said a lawyer for the Football Association, referring to statements Figueredos during his interrogation in Montevideo
. It should have gone to the withdrawal of ads of clubs in 2013, who felt betrayed by the corruption of TV rights to income. Accordingly, the clubs, the exclusion of international competitions had been threatened.
More crime in Uruguay
Figueredo was arrested in late May with six other top officials of FIFA in Switzerland. He was sitting in Zurich since then in custody and has now been delivered to his home country. In connection with allegations of corruption, the United States had also requested his extradition, whereas he submitted complaint. In the US, the 83-year-old is accused of abuse of office for personal gain by accepting bribes of US marketing company millions of dollars.
Because, however, determined in Uruguay against Figueredo for more crimes than in the US, decided to Swiss authorities ultimately to transfer him to his homeland. His lawyer Karen Pintos called to ask him because of his age and a critical state of health under house arrest, which the judicial authorities but rejected.
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