Fifa scandal creeps ever closer Blatter – Swedish YLE
FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke (left) and Chairman Sepp Blatter. FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke (left) and president Sepp Blatter. Picture: AFP / Lehtikuva
Fifa scandal creeps ever closer Chairman Sepp Blatter. Now, writes The New York Times that FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke suspected of having made a bank transfer of ten million dollars that are central in this muthärvan.
The money was transferred to accounts controlled by Jack Warner Football Association’s former president and one of the persons suspected of taking bribes to help South Africa to get the World Cup in 2010.
The American investigators do not say that Valcke knew it was the issue of bribes, but his possible involvement in the scandal raises new questions about what Blatter knew about the transfers.
Bank transfers made in 2008 and then had the decision on the World Cup in South Africa has already been taken. But US prosecutors claim that mutplanen stretched over several years.
South Africa had not managed to pay all the bribes, and then paid Fifa out $ 10 million to Warner. Money that should have gone to South Africa to finance the championship.
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