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The FIFA Debacle

Payment for a shipment of Vuvuzelas from Taiwan.
 
No mention either of that $10m transfer in the South African annual report either, again if it's not sinister why is it not mentioned.
The scale and depth to the corruption could be humongous.
 
Not quite:
South Africa did pay $10m (£6.5m) to a football body led by Jack Warner, a figure at the centre of Fifa corruption allegations, local media say.
Danny Jordaan, head of South Africa's FA, is quoted as confirming that the amount was deducted from a Fifa payment to the country in 2008.
A subsequent letter requested that money to be sent, instead, to the Caribbean Football Union, reports say.
South African officials deny it was a bribe to secure the 2010 World Cup.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32952078
 
There's a reporter from Trinidad & Tobago who was just on radio here and basically had the same experience, was hounded by Warner at every turn and was banned from FIFA meetings for a time before some court heard his appeal. Can't remember his name, unfortunately.
 
Jerome Valcke says he's no longer attending the women's World Cup in Canada.
 
"Fifa call an unscheduled press conference for 1700BST"

I wonder what they are denying this time?
 
OOOOOOO - now put back thirty minutes, and Blatter himself is doing the presser.

SSN think it might be Jerome Valcke getting the bullet.
 
Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case he's already not going to Canada and looked a very worried man when speaking to the press on Friday.
 
When in position of power and under pressure, always make sure you have a VERY senior subordinate you can feed to the dogs in order to deflect from yourself.
 
Valcke has been explicitly named in a letter which enclosed a $10m payment.

Amid a deepening corruption crisis within football's governing body, FIFA defended its second-in-command on Tuesday by trying to distance him from claims he helped authorise $10 million in bribes for World Cup bidding votes.

FIFA said the three payments totaling $10 million mentioned in a U.S. federal indictment, which are at the heart of a Department of Justice probe, were approved in 2007 by Julio Grondona, the former chairman of FIFA's finance committee who died last year.

The $10 million payment from FIFA to an account controlled by the disgraced former vice president Jack Warner followed a letter addressed to FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, the Press Association said.

The payment followed a letter from South African FA president Molefi Oliphant to Valcke asking for the payment to be withheld from World Cup funds and paid instead to Warner to support football in the Caribbean.
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It's a bit like the Lufthansa heist when Jimmy Conway starting bumping of all involved to cover his own back, obviously in not as grusome way.
 
:pint2: Ace but who steps into his shows?
 
Pol Pot and Stalin are not available due to being dead, so my money is on Kim Jong Un
 
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