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14 FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35249954
Fifa's ethics committee has opened formal proceedings against suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke.
It follows the football world governing body's recommendation that Valcke, outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter's right-hand man since 2007, is banned from the sport for nine years and fined 100,000 Swiss francs (£68,000).


The Ethics committee is going to be kept busy for years with all the FIFA officials they need to go through
 
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tiger666 said:
Platini has officially withdrawn from the election. No surprise.
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Surely with the suspension he was already withdrawn from the election so how is this news!

On another note I will not be going for the FIFA president election. I though I should announce it as I had more chance of going for it than Platini as I am not suspended and he got to announce his.
 
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Blatter's biggest crime was that he wasn't english

Look at Lord Coe, there have been more concrete suggestions of corruption in several different roles(in Uk athletics and as vice president and president of IAAF) yet he is getting away with. It helps when your friends are in charge of the country, I guess
 
Geyzer Soze

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beats1 said:
Blatter's biggest crime was that he wasn't english

Look at Lord Coe, there have been more concrete suggestions of corruption in several different roles(in Uk athletics and as vice president and president of IAAF) yet he is getting away with. It helps when your friends are in charge of the country, I guess
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You're not seriously comparing Coe's corruption to Blatters, are you? The scales are off the charts different
 
beats1

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Geyzer Soze said:
You're not seriously comparing Coe's corruption to Blatters, are you? The scales are off the charts different
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FIFA corruption was much bigger than IAAF in terms of money and etc.

However the fifa stuff is also bigger than one person as imo the asian, Caribbean and African countries have major corruption issues that aren't being dealt with and it will continue even in to the next president

Also lets not forget that Blatter has only been done for a £1.35m payment

Whereas with Coe, there have always been hint of corruption or at least it follows him around

  • He was Vice President when the cover up in the drugs case which he denied even yesterday before changing his mind,
  • involved with a corrupt olympic committee,
  • he wanted the LLDC to move away from crystal palace (Then his company recommended to bulldoze the ground and let it be part of a Chinese redevelopment scheme which his tory peers were lobbying for)
  • Also he was part of our olympic bid and was in charge of giving us a legacy yet the company he
  • He was personally hired by Blatter to be part of the FIFA ethics committee FFS!
  • He was vice president whilst they gave a World championship to the headquarters of Nike(who he worked for at the time of awarding it) without a proper bidding process in which he voted for
  • One of his ethics committee just admitted that the organisation in which he is in charge of and was vice president of, was embedded with corruption
 
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beats1 said:
Blatter's biggest crime was that he wasn't english

Look at Lord Coe, there have been more concrete suggestions of corruption in several different roles(in Uk athletics and as vice president and president of IAAF) yet he is getting away with. It helps when your friends are in charge of the country, I guess
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Chelsea fan. Nuff said.
 
worcestersauce

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Gianni Infantino is now the hot favourite to get the FIFA presidency, always seemed like a pretty solid guy at Uefa but can he sort out FIFA? Lets hope so.
 
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yankspurs said:
Reading it now. Still cant get over how he has CONCACAF paying for an an apartment for his cats next door to his own. What a power move:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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I love that he got mad because Warner got too bribey. "Hey man! We take bribes but not THAT many bribes. How dare you!"
 
Spursidol

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yankspurs said:
Ohhhhhh FIFA http://www.espnfc.us/blog/fifa/243/...s-to-see-details-of-intended-victory-speeches
:rolleyes:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35655454

So FIFA want to protect the reputation of previous FIFA officials such as Blatter, Platini whilst their appeals process has confirmed their bans from all football activities - albeit with reduced bans (8 yrs to 6 - why ??).

Whoever suggested the 'speech review' should be one of the first fired (without compensation) by the new incoming president as a sign of a new transparent FIFA (sadly think it will take an outsider from FIFA to do that)
 
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Spursidol said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35655454

So FIFA want to protect the reputation of previous FIFA officials such as Blatter, Platini whilst their appeals process has confirmed their bans from all football activities - albeit with reduced bans (8 yrs to 6 - why ??).

Whoever suggested the 'speech review' should be one of the first fired (without compensation) by the new incoming president as a sign of a new transparent FIFA (sadly think it will take an outsider from FIFA to do that)
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It's top-to-bottom corruption. Every inch of it is rotten.
 
Spursidol

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yankspurs said:
Long form article about how the takedown happened i guess? No clue. Havent read it yet but im linking it here
http://es.pn/1QFZbUd
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Good journalism.

I'm staggered that the FBI's first source of info wouldn't have been the numerous press, and even TV, 'investigations' into FIFA - certainly been plenty into FIFA over the past decade. Plenty of evidence of corruption uncovered in them.

As I understand it, the problem that any legal process faced was jurisdiction - which the US overcame by the fact that all/most of the bribes were US dollar denominated, and in many cases used US banks. So well done on that
 
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I think the only way to sort this out once and for all is by disbanding all continental boards and FIFA.
Clean broom worldwide, all new staff have to go through due diligence for the last ten years.
 
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