The cleanup at the FIFA continues. Now it has caught Joseph Blatter once closest confidants. The International Football Association dismissed with immediate effect since September suspended Secretary General Jerome Valcke.
According to a decision of the Emergency Committee, the employment relationship was also resolved that FIFA was on its website under the heading “dismissal of Jerome Valcke as FIFA General Secretary “known.
After the World Association had already separated the end of 2006 for a short time by the then marketing director for a misdeed, the farewell is now expected to be final. His duties will continue to the Executive Secretary-General Markus Kattner take over.
Valcke, the first time was at the 2003 FIFA operates and since June 2007, right as general secretary Blatter’s hand, corruption is alleged. The US Department of Justice suspects the 55-year-olds say that ten million dollars from South Africa to have forwarded to the controlled scandal official Jack Warner Football Associations CONCACAF and CFU.
On Thursday of last week opened, according to the FIFA their adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert a formal procedure against Valcke. A native of Paris had been suspended already on 17 September 2015th On October 8, the Ethics Committee of FIFA imposed a provisional suspension of 90 days against Valcke.
The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” wrote in connection with Valckes suspension that the agency JB Sports Marketing serious allegations against FIFA Lace had raised. Representatives of the Agency had submitted a ticketing agreement with FIFA for the World Cups from 2010 to 2022, in the context Valcke one should have been assured “discrete profit-sharing”.
Valcke, whose career in 1984 as a journalist for the French broadcasters Canal + had begun, denied the alleged misconduct. The relevant allegations were “fictitious” and “outrageous”, had Valckes lawyer Barry Berke told New Yorker. Valcke had never received money and never consented to accept of this money or other valuables.
How much Blatter his former close aides estimated is a statement from the past. “Tough People brings you back,” said Blatter, as secretary general Valcke climb after his exemption. “When he took up his duties as Director of Marketing and TV in the four and a half years, FIFA, we were in red numbers,” said Blatter in 2007. The year before Valckes career at the FIFA threatened to be the first time to an abrupt end.
He had finished as TV and marketing director a sponsorship contract with a credit card company (Visa), without negotiation before conformity with the contract only with the existing sponsor (Mastercard). That cost the FIFA 90 million euros. Only half a year later, he returned as general secretary back.
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