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FIFA Corruption arrests

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Least surprising headline of the year award goes to

"Swiss police arrests Fifa officials in Zurich"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32895048


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If there is a god i hope Blatter is one of them and if not they have information that can link him directly to it, please, please, please,
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Portchester PFC wrote:If there is a god i hope Blatter is one of them and if not they have information that can link him directly to it, please, please, please,
Apparently not (yet).
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No Shot Sherlock wrote:
Portchester PFC wrote:If there is a god i hope Blatter is one of them and if not they have information that can link him directly to it, please, please, please,
Apparently not (yet).
I am not going to un-cross my fingers and toes just yet :D
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Can't help thinking it was Sepp who has shopped them or at least given the Feds the trail to follow. Timing is right, just before the election. Cue a big two-faced statement from Sepp praising the FBI, and how corrupt individuals have no place at FIFA. Followed by a new anti-corruption stance, and nullifying the platforms of his election rivals.
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BREAKING NEWS

Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the 2018 and 2022 WC bids.

And

FIFA Towers in Zurich has been raided.
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Just crossing your fingers and toes - I'm even crossing my eyes!
Portchester PFC wrote:
No Shot Sherlock wrote:
Portchester PFC wrote:If there is a god i hope Blatter is one of them and if not they have information that can link him directly to it, please, please, please,
Apparently not (yet).
I am not going to un-cross my fingers and toes just yet :D
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BBC says the 47-count indictment charges "14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies".

These are huge crimes carrying very lengthy sentences. Unless Bladder has been using secret bank accounts (it's also a serious crime to open a bank account under a false identity), his finances will have been thoroughly audited too.

Apparently "more arrests are expected".

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RubiconCSL wrote:Just crossing your fingers and toes - I'm even crossing my eyes!
Portchester PFC wrote:
No Shot Sherlock wrote:
Portchester PFC wrote:If there is a god i hope Blatter is one of them and if not they have information that can link him directly to it, please, please, please,
Apparently not (yet).
I am not going to un-cross my fingers and toes just yet :D
If i had any hair left on my head they would be crossed too :-)
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I like this bit:-
10:22

A correspondent for Russia's state-owned Rossiya 24 TV channel has said that Wednesday's arrests are "a US attempt to set a precedent after which they may with a vengeance start demanding that Fifa strip Russia of the right to hold the world championship".

The correspondent adds that "this isn't the first time the US has been using sport as political leverage".
This one could run for a while. Entertaining if nothing else.

If it's taken since 1990 for this to eventually lead to action, you can see why our well documented issues will NEVER see action :(
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HappyHour@TheBreweryOfLife wrote:BBC says the 47-count indictment charges "14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies".

These are huge crimes carrying very lengthy sentences. Unless Bladder has been using secret bank accounts (it's also a serious crime to open a bank account under a false identity), his finances will have been thoroughly audited too.

Apparently "more arrests are expected".

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Up to 14 arrests now - including the FIFA Head of Internal Audit.
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NY Times:
The indictment listed 14 names. The football officials charged are Webb, Figueredo, Li, Jack Warner, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Rafael Esquivel, Jose Maria Marin and Nicolas Leoz.

Also charged are:

Alejandro Burzaco - chief executive of an Argentine sports communications firm 'Torneos y Competencias'. TyC purchased the broadcasting rights for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Aaron Davidson - chief executive of the North American Soccer League, a professional league in the US and Canada.

Hugo Jinkis - President of Full Play Group, a sports marketing company in Argentina formed in 1998.

Mariano Jinkis - Vice-president of Full Play Group, a sports marketing company in Argentina formed in 1998.

Jose Margulies - charged as an intermediary who facilitated illegal payments.

All the charges are understood to be based on deals done in the United States dating back to the 1990s and involve charges of racketeering and money laundering.

Much of the evidence has come from Chuck Blazer, a former member of the FIFA executive committee who turned 'supergrass' for the FBI.

Blazer wore a wire tap to the London Olympic Games on behalf of the FBI in order to record meetings with colleagues.
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So who, out of those that are left, will vote for Blatter this Friday? I suspect there may be a strong desire to distance themselves from the current regime.
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Allegedly Blatter wants the vote postponed.
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pompeygunner wrote:Allegedly Blatter wants the vote postponed.
For 5 years probably.
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