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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is the target of a new investigation in Switzerland for suspected criminal mismanagement of a $1 million payment from soccer funds. Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during an interview with Reuters in Zurich. REUTERS Blatter has been notified by Swiss federal prosecutors he is an accused person over a loan FIFA gave in 2010 to the Trinid
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stanley canada nked to soccers world governing body, though he was banned from the presidency and now risks being brought to trial in his home country. The payment from a FIFA account on April 13, 2010, was interest-free, unsecured and later waived as a kind of gift, the document detailed. It is the latest allegation in Swiss and American federal investigations tying FIFA to irregular payments benefiting Jack Warner, its former vice president from Trinidad who is fighting extradition to the United States. Warner long controlled a key bloc in FIFA elections until he left soccer after being implicated in bribing
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A long-awaited day of judgment on World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar turned into another day of FIFA disarray. HT Image Nearly four years after FIFA chose Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, the football body s ethics judge exonerated the two countries of any corruption in their winning bids and cleared them to stage the sport s showpiece tournament. The rulin
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stanley cup by German judge Joachim Eckert came despite evidence of some improper conduct by eight of the nine bids. Eckert s report was denounced by critics as a whitewash and harshly contested by the American prosecutor who led the investigation. Michael Garcia, the former US Attorney in Manhattan, said he will appeal Eckert s decision to close the case, saying it was based on materially incomplete and erroneous interpretation of his own findings - 430 pages of investigative work sealed by FIFA from public scrutiny. A 42-page report relea
stanley termos sed by FIFA and designed to bestow integrity on the next two World Cup hosts had its own ethics attacked. Eckert s strongest criticism was leveled not at Qatar or Russia but at England s failed 2018 bid - for aggressively wooing a key FIFA voter. I think it s a bit of a joke ... the whole process, said England s Football Association chairman Greg Dyke. CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands and US Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati, both members of FIFA s ruling executive committee, called for Garcia s work to be released with appropriate red
