Graeme Joffe: “Dirty Diaspora” coming home to roost – FIFA targets $10m 2010 bribe
As a fish rots from the head, so Graeme Joffe says the same is true of South African sport.
As a fish rots from the head, so Graeme Joffe says the same is true of South African sport.
FIFA presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale said he had appeared before a US grand jury last week as a potential witness in the probe into the 2010 World Cup corruption scandal.
After effectively ending the career of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, internal investigators at soccer’s beleaguered governing body are shifting their focus to throwing out his chief lieutenant, Jerome Valcke.
One of five marketing executives charged alongside nine soccer officials in a U.S. corruption probe of FIFA is negotiating a plea deal.
SA is asked to swallow the story paying bribes to the FIFA executives was the only way to land the showpiece. If Morocco offered $7m, we needed to pay $10m.
Chuck Blazer, for two decades the face of North American soccer, is the multimillionaire felon who pleaded guilty to racketeering and blew the whistle on endemic corruption in the sport’s governing body.
After FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s stunning resignation announcement Tuesday, there’s been much discussion on the next steps soccer’s governing body must take to institute meaningful reform.
American law enforcement officials must have been chuckling to themselves these past few days as the rich and powerful in deeply corrupted global soccer organisation FIFA blustered forth one denial after another.
The net is slowly closing on once impregnable soccer chief Sepp Blatter. FIFA boss’s right hand man, Jerome Valcke, was revealed as the one who transferred $10m to Jack Warner.