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Sepp Blatter Resigns From FIFA Presidency

By m4DD0gg, in General Football and Sport

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Jaspa

Jaspa

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US Department of Justice, no way they'd go in without evidence.

 

How big can this get, Are we going to see World Cups suspended or is this simply background music for the presidential election in a few days?

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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The 14 people are:

Fifa

Jeffrey Webb

Eugenio Figueredo

Jack Warner

Eduardo Li

Julio Rocha

Costas Takkas

Rafael Esquivel

José Maria Marin

Nicolás Leoz

Others

The New York Times says charges “were also expected against” sports marketing executives Alejandro Burzaco, Aaron Davidson, Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis.

The BBC is now reporting that it has confirmed the names of four of those arrested today:

Eduardo Li

Jeffrey Webb

Jose Maria Marin

Eugenio Figueredo

Webb and Figueredo are Fifa vice-presidents. Li was due to join the executive committee on Friday and Marin is a former member of the executive committee.

All from here

http://gu.com/p/499vz

kingcarr21

kingcarr21

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Wonder if this will have any bearing on the presidential election. They said Blatter isnt involved in the latest arrests. Surely if there is any sort of corruption going on he is aware of it.

 

Just wish that dinosaur would F*** off

stripeyfox

stripeyfox

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Wonder if this will have any bearing on the presidential election. They said Blatter isnt involved in the latest arrests. Surely if there is any sort of corruption going on he is aware of it.

Just wish that dinosaur would F*** off

Call me a cynic but maybe this plays into his hands to either stall the election (which he looks set to lose) or for delegate to rally round Blatter in a "better the devil you know" scenario...

Ashley

Ashley

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And people say they didn't take bribes for the Russian WC. England bid won hands down.. corrupt ****s

Guest ttfn

Guest ttfn

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Call me a cynic but maybe this plays into his hands to either stall the election (which he looks set to lose) or for delegate to rally round Blatter in a "better the devil you know" scenario...

Blatter is going to win as sure as night follows day.

ozleicester

ozleicester

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"FIFA officials were escorted out behind sheets at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich"

 

What a joke these people are

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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Call me a cynic but maybe this plays into his hands to either stall the election (which he looks set to lose) or for delegate to rally round Blatter in a "better the devil you know" scenario...

 

 :huh: Before this Blatter was nailed on to win the election. The fact that they've arrested a lot of Concacaf people will, if anything, harm his chances since they declared they'd vote for him en masse.

 

And people say they didn't take bribes for the Russian WC. England bid won hands down.. corrupt ****s

 

These charges are for tournaments in the US and Latin America, with bribery taking place through US bank accounts (hence the FBI's involvement). I'd be surprised if anything specific came up about bribery for Russia/Qatar as a result of this. Although this doesn't really help FIFA's claim that any breaches of the rules (in the Qatar bid) were of "very limited scope".

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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And people say they didn't take bribes for the Russian WC. England bid won hands down.. corrupt ****s

These charges are for tournaments in the US and Latin America, with bribery taking place through US bank accounts (hence the FBI's involvement). I'd be surprised if anything specific came up about bribery for Russia/Qatar as a result of this. Although this doesn't really help FIFA's claim that any breaches of the rules (in the Qatar bid) were of "very limited scope".

 

And as I type that this pops up on the Guardian lol

 

World Cup votes - criminal proceedings

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice has announced it is now questioning 10 Fifaexecutives who took part in voting on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. A statement from the Swiss attorney general said criminal proceedings have opened “against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups”.

 

 

 

What we know so far

Fifa are facing an unprecedented crisis on the eve of their congress in Zurich after Swiss authorities made early-morning arrests of six officials and opened separate criminal proceedings over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. 

  • Officers carried out a dawn raid on the five star Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich and arrested a number of officials on corruption charges, including Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb from the Cayman Islands.
  • In a separate move, officers raided Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich, seized electronic data and opened criminal proceedings “against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups,” said a statement from the Swiss attorney general.
  • Authorities have confirmed today’s developments involve two separate proceedings.
Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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Statement from the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland on the World Cup related arrests (which are separate from the FBI arrests)

 

 

 

 

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland seizes documents at FIFA
 

Bern, 27.05.2015 - The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups. In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA’s head office in Zurich.

 

Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, the OAG has seized data and documents stored in IT systems at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) as part of a so-called “collection of evidence on cooperative basis”. That means that the party in possession of the data – in this case, FIFA – delivers the requested data to law enforcement authorities, or gives assistance in securing the data, thus facilitating an efficient and swift procedure. The collection of relevant bank documents had already been ordered beforehand at various financial institutes in Switzerland. The files seized today and the collected bank documents will serve criminal proceedings both in Switzerland and abroad.  

 

In the Swiss criminal proceedings, opened by the OAG on 10 March 2015, it is suspected that irregularities occurred in the allocation of the FIFA World Cups of 2018 and 2022. The corresponding unjust enrichment is suspected to have taken place at least partly in Switzerland. Furthermore, the head office of the damaged party, FIFA, is in Switzerland. For these reasons, investigations are being carried out on the suspicion of criminal mismanagement (Article 158 under 1, Section 3 Swiss Criminal Code / SCC). There are also suspicions of money laundering through Swiss bank accounts (Article 305bis, SCC). Subsequently to today’s seizure of files, the OAG and the Swiss Federal Criminal Police will be questioning 10 persons who took part in voting on the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as members of the Executive Committee in 2010. These persons should be questioned as persons providing information. 

 

For reasons of criminal procedure (principle of proportionality), the procedure coordinated with the requested acts of the U.S. authorities was designed in such a way as to allow the procurement of any criminally relevant data in an effective manner, and to avoid any possible collusion. These measures were carried out simultaneously as a large number of persons involved in allocating the World Cups were currently in Zurich. These legal actions concern two criminal procedures conducted separately by the OAG and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The Swiss and US law enforcement authorities are not conducting any joint investigations, but are coordinating their respective criminal proceedings.  

 

On 18 November 2014, FIFA had filed criminal charges against persons unknown with the OAG. Therefore, the Swiss proceeding is aimed at persons unknown, with FIFA as the injured party. With this procedure, the OAG is contributing to the struggle against corrupt behaviour and money laundering.

lgfualol

lgfualol

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Yessss. I hope they all turn on each other. 

 

It's so painfully obvious that they're incredibly corrupt, and I'm happy someone is doing something about it. 

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

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Could this mean football is coming home in 2018?

 

Unlikely

 

 

 

De Gregorio says he cannot confirm how many serving executives have been arrested, and says there will be no re-vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. “The World Cups will be played in Russia and Qatar.”

http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/may/27/fifa-officials-arrested-on-corruption-charges-live#block-55658e68e4b0cffd869176db

Stadt

Stadt

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Arghhhh **** Qatar, Russia is bad enough but at least it has some footballing heritage

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