Thursday, July 12, 2012

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange received millions of dollars in a World Cup kickbacks. Surprise, surprise...

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange and one-time Brazilian soccer leader Ricardo Teixeira received millions of dollars in a World Cup kickbacks scandal, soccer’s world governing body confirmed on Wednesday.

FIFA finally published a Swiss court dossier which detailed that Teixeira received at $13 million from 1992-97 in payments from World Cup marketing partner ISL. The Swiss-based agency’s collapse into bankruptcy in 2001 sparked a criminal probe and exposed the routine practice of buying influence from top sports officials.

The 41-page document showed Havelange received a payment of about $1 million in 1997, one year before he was succeeded as FIFA president by Sepp Blatter.

Payments “attributed” to accounts connected to the two Brazilians totalled almost $22 million from 1992-2000. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. FIFA, the FA, Blatter and Qatar's World Cup... 
  2. Qatar 'bribed Africa over World Cup' 
  3. Olympism profiteering, exploitation and corruption...
  4. Diego Maradona accused of accepting bribes...
  5. "Some 300 football games a season are fixed in Europe's top leagues..." 
  6. "World Cup votes can be bought with money and girls"
  7. Singapore mastermind jailed in Finland for global match-fixing ... 
  8. The World Cup and South Africa, the dark side...
  9. Russian referees have been bribed, beaten, murdered...

No comments:

Post a Comment