Gianni Infantino is less than two months as FIFA President in office, already experienced the Swiss his first personal crisis. The 46-year-old should have a role in the “Panama Papers” play. The Swiss police have therefore searches the Uefa headquarters in Nyon on Wednesday.
As Gianni Infantino has been elected president of skandalerschütterten Fifa, he was in his first emotional appeal a promise: “. I want to start a new era in the Fifa, at the football moves back into the center”
the dirt of the dark Sepp Blatter era should quickly from the International Football Association be swept.
officials are calling for accessing contracts between Uefa and letterbox
just six weeks later, but dominated again the events off the pitch the headlines. The Swiss police have the Uefa headquarters in Nyon on Wednesday paid an unannounced visit to check Infantinos entanglements in Panama Papers affair.
officials demanded insight into contracts between UEFA and the letterbox cross trading.
a little later informed the Swiss federal Prosecutor with to determine because of “suspicion of breach of trust and possibly the misappropriation” in a criminal case. This is not directed at present however against a specific person.
Uefa promises cooperation
It stood “in connection with the acquisition of TV broadcasting rights and is directed against unknown perpetrators”. In the raid in the prestigious Association headquarters on Lake Geneva and at another unknown location “evidence ensure” should be.
“Of course, the Uefa federal police all relevant documents in their possession and will cooperate fully” “it said in a Uefa press release
Infantino entangled in sensitive transactions
Previously in the.?” Süddeutsche Zeitung “under the heading” Panama Papers: the secrets of dirty money “
million transactions with television rights a half-page drawing of the Swiss with tie and red jacket and a report on allegedly dubious and sensitive transactions Infantinos during his time appeared in the Uefa.
Infantino should who in his capacity as director of the Uefa legal department signed agreements with the company Cross Trading, 2006, the owners were two of the now accused in Fifa scandal. it was about the TV rights.
the South American TV rights dealer Hugo Mariano Jinkis are then purchased with the Treaties TV rights for the Champions League and they have sold at a high profit in Latin America.
Uefa rejects all accusations
Both Infantino and the Uefa had reacted after the first reports of unusually detailed opinions and sometimes drastic words. From “absolute nonsense” in the Uefa headquarters on Lake Geneva was talk. The Uefa suggested “not just a sad day for football, but also a sad day for journalism”.
Infantino claimed to have never negotiated with cross trading or their own personal colonnes. The bidding process was then carried out for an open tender for the UEFA Marketing Division, added the UEFA
Infantino. “Nere” for misbehavior
“The rights were at Teleamazonas / Cross Trading awarded, as this was the highest bidder in the market, “said the UEFA with. Some media would “represent the facts wrong and lead the public astray,” read
Infantino was quoted in a Fifa Announcement:. “There is no evidence of any wrongdoing Uefa or me in this matter “
this saw the Swiss Federal police apparently different
background:.. Infantino was since August 2000 until his election as FIFA President engaged in the Uefa, from October 2009 as general secretary. On February 26, 2016 he was elected to succeed Sepp Blatter
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