Updated 2015-06-03 23:25.
Published 2015-06-03 22:01
Chuck Blazer (right) together with outgoing FIFA chairman Sepp Blatter 2011.
Chuck Blazer has admitted he took bribes in connection with that South Africa got the World Cup 2010. Blazer also claims that other former members of FIFA’s executive committee taking bribes. It reports Sky Sports.
Chuck Blazer has admitted he took bribes in connection with that South Africa got the World Cup 2010. Blazer also claims that other former members of FIFA’s executive committee taking bribes. It reports Sky Sports.
Chuck Blazer was previously senior FIFA, the international football association. He is said to have come up with decisive information in the investigation that led to several FIFA peaks was arrested in Zurich last week.
On Wednesday, announced the Department of Justice a hearing with the Blazer, conducted in New York in 2013.
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“I and others in FIFA’s executive committee took bribes in connection with the selection of South Africa as the host country for the 2010 World Cup,” said Blazer in the document, and continues:
“We agreed to take part in a plot to lure Fifa and Concacaf by receiving bribes.”
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He also says he participated in “at least two cases of swindling” and to “facilitate the receipt of a bribe” in connection with the application process to host the football World Cup in 1998. If the bribes affected that from Austria got the championship until will not.
Bribes should also have been associated with broadcast rights to the Gold Cup – a regional tournament for Concacafs national team – between 1993 and 2003, said Blazer.
From where bribes are come will not in the testimony. Blazer names nor the other Fifa peaks which he claims to have been bribed.
The 70-year old American was a member of FIFA’s executive committee between 1996 and 2013. Between 1996 and 2013 he was general secretary of Concacaf (Football Association North and Central America and the Caribbean). He was arrested by FBI agents when he was on his way in his permomobil in Manhattan, writes New York Daily News.
Blazer is known for his extravagant lifestyle – which he often described in his own blog – and owns, among Another two apartments in the fashionable Trump Tower in Manhattan. According to the American newspapers he lives himself in his own, with a rent of $ 18,000 a month, while the other, which is slightly smaller, mainly used by the Blazers cats. The cost of: $ 6,000 a month.
According to the Guardian deklarade Blazer is not between the years 2005 and 2010, although he uppnebaligen had incomes. These should instead be channeled to various tax havens.
The publication of his testimony made more than a day after Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the last 17 years, announced his resignation.
In the investigation of corruption and bribery in and around FIFA has so far 14 people accused. In total, they have received various types of bribes to a value of over one billion over 24 years, according to the US Justice Department.
Chuck Blazer will recover some time after extensive treatment against intestinal cancer.
US Legal Document Reveals #FIFA exec Chuck Blazer admitted taking “bribes and kickbacks” linked to South Africa’s bid for the 2010 World Cup
– Sky News Newsdesk (SkyNewsBreak) June 3, 2015
Ex-FIFA Exco member Chuck Blazer’s guilty pleasent testimony HAS BEEN published. Take a look at this. pic.twitter.com/9LbxZGkpXx
- Dan Roan (danroan) June 3, 2015
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