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    Ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter receives $12M bonus for 2014 World Cup...

    FIFA says Sepp Blatter, 2 other top officials gave themselves $80 million in bonus money over 5 years
    Friday, June 3, 2016 — FIFA’s top officials Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner awarded themselves pay rises and World Cup bonuses totaling $80 million over their last five years in office.
    Some of the contracted payments appear to break Swiss law, and evidence will be given to American and Swiss federal prosecutors who are investigating corruption implicating the world soccer body, lawyers for FIFA said Friday. “The evidence appears to reveal a coordinated effort by three former top officials of FIFA to enrich themselves through annual salary increases, World Cup bonuses and other incentives totaling more than 79 million Swiss francs — in just the last five years,” said Bill Burck of Quinn Emanuel, the U.S. law firm retained by FIFA during its corruption crisis. FIFA revealed details of the contracts of its former president Blatter, fired former secretary general Valcke and fired finance director Kattner one day after police raided FIFA to seize evidence for the Swiss investigation.

    Blatter got a 12 million Swiss francs ($12 million) bonus after the successful 2014 World Cup in Brazil and would have been due another 12 million Swiss francs for completing his 2015-19 presidential term. The secretly agreed bonuses were significantly more than Blatter’s base salary — 3 million Swiss francs ($3 million) in 2015 — which was published by FIFA in March. Valcke got a $2 million base salary in 2015 before being fired, but got a $10 million World Cup bonus for 2014 and was due $11 million from the 2018 tournament in Russia. The police raid Thursday included searches in the office of Kattner who was fired last week. “Documents and electronic data were seized and will now be examined to determine their relevance to the ongoing proceedings,” the Swiss federal prosecution office said Friday.

    Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber opened criminal proceedings against Blatter last September, and against Valcke in March. Both are suspected of criminal mismanagement of FIFA money. Blatter and Valcke deny wrongdoing but were banned for six and 12 years, respectively, by FIFA’s ethics committee. No criminal proceedings have yet been opened against Kattner. “Additionally, FIFA will refer the matter of these contracts and payments to the Ethics Committee for its review,” FIFA said in a statement. Any ethics investigation could affect two senior officials at the heart of FIFA’s financial operation. Finance committee chairman Issa Hayatou, the interim FIFA president while Blatter was suspended, and former audit panel chairman Domenico Scala both approved at least one of the contracts revealed Friday.

    Three weeks after new FIFA President Gianni Infantino claimed that “the crisis is over,” the turmoil rocking soccer’s world governing body continues. Infantino has been criticized for a breakdown in his relationship with Scala, who resigned on May 14. The FIFA president privately described as “insulting” a salary offer from Scala, reported as $2 million without bonuses. Since Kattner’s firing on May 23, German language newspapers have been fed a series of leaked minutes from meetings and FIFA emails which sought to turn scrutiny on Infantino. Elected four months ago to replace Blatter, Infantino pledged reform and a changed culture at FIFA was expected to face resistance from insiders. The 45-year-old Swiss official also arrived with a reputation as a critic of FIFA during seven years as secretary general of European soccer body UEFA.

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    Sepp Blatter loses appeal...

    Sepp Blatter - Appeal against six-year ban from football upheld/dismissed by CAS
    Tuesday 6th December, 2016The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed former FIFA president Sepp Blatter's appeal against a six-year ban from football on Monday.
    Blatter, 80, who served as the president of world football's governing body from 1998 to 2015, had been waiting for the CAS verdict since announcing that he would contest the ban. His punishment had been imposed for a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($1.98m) allegedly made to Michel Platini, then the UEFA president, in 2011.

    In a statement announcing the ruling, CAS also said that Blatter would be fined 50,000 Swiss francs for making the payment which "amounted to an undue gift as it had no contractual basis." Both men were originally banned for eight years by FIFA in December 2015, but that was reduced to six years by an appeals panel in February. Sepp Blatter spent 17 years as FIFA president. In May, CAS cut Platini's ban by a further two years.

    Blatter was succeeded as FIFA president earlier this year by former UEFA general secretary and fellow Swiss national Gianni Infantino. Infantino, 46, won February's election in the second round of voting with Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, president of the Asian Football Confederation, his closest rival.

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    Good. The improprieties in world soccer are largely due to him.

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    Named by Alejandro Burzaco...

    Ex-Argentine soccer official found dead amid FIFA corruption trial
    Nov. 15, 2017 -- A former Argentinian soccer official committed suicide -- the same day he was accused of taking bribes on the second day of a corruption trial in New York City.
    Jorge Delhon was accused during testimony at trial Tuesday of accepting $500,000 a year from 2011 to 2014 to secure broadcasting rights to international soccer games. Delhon was found dead on railroad tracks in Buenos Aires. Officials believe he was hit by a train.

    The 52-year-old attorney worked for Football For All, an Argentine government program which held broadcasting rights for national soccer games. Delhon's name was cited this week during the FIFA trial in New York City centering on Jose Maria Marin, the former head of Brazil's Football Confederation, Juan Ángel Napout, former Fifa vice-president and Manuel Braga, who led Peru's soccer federation.


    Argentinian businessman Alejandro Burzaco arrives at Brooklyn Federal court in Brooklyn, New York.

    One of the key witnesses in the case, Argentine sports marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco, was the one to name Delhon. Burzaco has already pleaded guilty to handing out millions of dollars in bribes.

    A colleague of Delhon, Pablo Paladino, was also implicated, as was Julio Grondona, the long-time president of the Argentine Football Association. The former officials have been accused of taking bribes in exchange for lucrative broadcasting and hosting rights for major soccer tournaments.

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