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FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

Swiss investigation in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 world cup

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The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland seizes documents at FIFA
Bern, 27.05.2015 - The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups. In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA’s head office in Zurich.

Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, the OAG has seized data and documents stored in IT systems at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) as part of a so-called “collection of evidence on cooperative basis”. That means that the party in possession of the data – in this case, FIFA – delivers the requested data to law enforcement authorities, or gives assistance in securing the data, thus facilitating an efficient and swift procedure. The collection of relevant bank documents had already been ordered beforehand at various financial institutes in Switzerland. The files seized today and the collected bank documents will serve criminal proceedings both in Switzerland and abroad.

In the Swiss criminal proceedings, opened by the OAG on 10 March 2015, it is suspected that irregularities occurred in the allocation of the FIFA World Cups of 2018 and 2022. The corresponding unjust enrichment is suspected to have taken place at least partly in Switzerland. Furthermore, the head office of the damaged party, FIFA, is in Switzerland. For these reasons, investigations are being carried out on the suspicion of criminal mismanagement (Article 158 under 1, Section 3 Swiss Criminal Code / SCC). There are also suspicions of money laundering through Swiss bank accounts (Article 305bis, SCC). Subsequently to today’s seizure of files, the OAG and the Swiss Federal Criminal Police will be questioning 10 persons who took part in voting on the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as members of the Executive Committee in 2010. These persons should be questioned as persons providing information.

For reasons of criminal procedure (principle of proportionality), the procedure coordinated with the requested acts of the U.S. authorities was designed in such a way as to allow the procurement of any criminally relevant data in an effective manner, and to avoid any possible collusion. These measures were carried out simultaneously as a large number of persons involved in allocating the World Cups were currently in Zurich. These legal actions concern two criminal procedures conducted separately by the OAG and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The Swiss and US law enforcement authorities are not conducting any joint investigations, but are coordinating their respective criminal proceedings.

On 18 November 2014, FIFA had filed criminal charges against persons unknown with the OAG. Therefore, the Swiss proceeding is aimed at persons unknown, with FIFA as the injured party. With this procedure, the OAG is contributing to the struggle against corrupt behaviour and money laundering.

Note to media representatives:
In connection with irregularities surrounding football tournaments, two separate proceedings must be distinguished:

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) is conducting a Swiss criminal investigation regarding the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. For inquiries regarding this Swiss criminal investigation, please contact the OAG.

In separate proceedings, and independently of the Swiss criminal investigation of the OAG, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York is conducting a criminal investigation into the allocation of media, marketing and sponsoring rights for football tournaments carried out in the United States and Latin America. The Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) supports this criminal investigation as part of international legal assistance. Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, football officials and suspected bribers have been arrested in Zurich and placed in detention pending extradition as part of this investigation, and by order of the FOJ.
The requests for extradition and legal assistance shall be decided upon by the FOJ, and not by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland.
 
Now the FBI are rolling on this, FIFA really are in the do-do. Even the Swiss authorities are bang on it.

The walls are closing in.

FIFA response....'well we might as well still have the election on friday':)

If FIFA don't change why don't we just break away, everyone will follow when most of europe break off, especially if the organisation just looks/or proven rancid from top to bottom??
 
Most of the non-European representatives love Blatter and the current FIFA. They can be as corrupt as they want to be and get a lot of benefits at Europe's expense. Do CONCACAF really deserve a fourth participant at the WC? Europe have no more entries now than when it was 24 teams (and Europe had a lot less countries trying to qualify). Africa got two additional places for 2010, one for the hosts. Now they're talking about removing one of Europe's 13, but we might keep it for now since Russia qualifies as hosts. That's 12 spots for the other 50 something countries. It's no coincidence where Blatter gets his votes from.
 
Modric THFC said:
Heres José Maria Marin (Current member of the FIFA organizing committee for the Olympic football tournaments. Former CBF president.) stealing a medal in public at a medal ceremony

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Haha sneaky git! I wonder if much was made of this?
 
Is the unthinkable - for Blatter - about to happen? He's just flunked his third public engagement in 24 hours, hopefully because he's too busy preparing his resignation speech. We can but hope.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter skips third public appearance as sponsors threaten future after corruption arrests

Fifa President Sepp Blatter has pulled out of a third scheduled public appearance since the arrest of seven Fifa executives at their Zurich hotel yesterday morning.

Mr Blatter was supposed to speak at the opening of the second session of Fifa’s Medical Conference at Zurich’s Hallenstadion this morning, but will not be attending for what his spokesperson called “obvious reasons.”

Fifa’s President is no stranger to crisis in his seventeen embattled years as head of football’s global governing body. That he should turn down the opportunity to publicly defend himself is almost unheard of, confirming what is already known – that this is by far the most serious scandal in the organisation’s history.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...future-after-corruption-arrests-10280455.html
 
Spur of the moment said:
Is the unthinkable - for Blatter - about to happen? He's just flunked his third public engagement in 24 hours, hopefully because he's too busy preparing his resignation speech. We can but hope.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter skips third public appearance as sponsors threaten future after corruption arrests

Fifa President Sepp Blatter has pulled out of a third scheduled public appearance since the arrest of seven Fifa executives at their Zurich hotel yesterday morning.

Mr Blatter was supposed to speak at the opening of the second session of Fifa’s Medical Conference at Zurich’s Hallenstadion this morning, but will not be attending for what his spokesperson called “obvious reasons.”

Fifa’s President is no stranger to crisis in his seventeen embattled years as head of football’s global governing body. That he should turn down the opportunity to publicly defend himself is almost unheard of, confirming what is already known – that this is by far the most serious scandal in the organisation’s history.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...future-after-corruption-arrests-10280455.html
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Would you trust all that shredding and burning to someone else? Got get your priorities right when it comes to covering your tracks.
 
Sky News' reporter Katie Stallard is in Moscow to shed some light on those Putin quotes that dropped earlier.
"He's accusing the United States of trying to meddle in FIFA's affairs in an attempt to take away "Russia's World Cup". He describes all this as part of what he chooses to see as an anti-Russian conspiracy, so he describes the arrests in Zurich as "at best very odd'.
"He says it looks like the latest attempts by the United States to extend its jurisdiction into other states which echoes a warning from the Foreign Ministry here.
"He says he is aware of what he calls "pressure on Blatter" over his support for Russia's world Cup and says this is the latest attempt to derail his election. So in other words he's choosing to see this in terms of politics and anti-Russian conspiracy, but it's important to know what is at stake for Russia here, just how important this world cup is.
"Football is massively popular in Russia and this World Cup is a national prestige project to which Putin has attached himself personally and for which we have seen today he is clearly prepared to come out fighting."
 
Jamie Fuller is chairman of Swiss-bases sportswear brand SKINS and thinks the balance of power lies with the sponsors. He told SSN HQ:
"I'd like nothing more than to hear either VISA or Coke and show the sort of leadership that is lacking within FIFA and to put the ultimatum and that is if Sepp Blatter insists on running an election tomorrow and if he insists on running himself then they should be withdrawing their patronage.
"If not I think there is scope for a number of FAs, the English, the Germans, the Dutch, the Americans, the Canadians and maybe a couple more get together and say 'enough is enough'. It can be done quickly and easily but it needs the sponsors to move because if anything has been proven, FIFA will listen to no one, they care about nothing other than money and it's the money and the sponsors that count."
 
Simon Johnson from England's 2018 bid has told Sky Sports News HQ he doesn't think England would be asked to host the World Cup even if the 2018 and 2022 bids were sent to a re-vote.
"There is the slimmest of slim chances that the 2018 World Cup bid will be re-opened.
"It's slightly more likely that the 2022 will, but I don't think there's a high chance of that, and if it were to be re-opened for 2018 I think it's very unlikely it would be awarded to England because however much you or I think England have the best facilities and could stage a wonderful World Cup, the fact is that FIFA blames England and the English media for the predicament it finds itself in now.
"At yesterday's press conference, the first 15 questions were asked by English journalists. So I don't think FIFA under the current leadership, or anyone who's currently around this leadership, would award it to England."
 
I hope Blatter wins on friday. He can be taken down a different day.
Regardless what he's done (huge undisclosed salary, unlimited expense account, media right organisation belonging to his nephew) he's not as bad as the other candidate the brother of the dictator of Jordan. Blatter never tortured anyone.
 
I hope this isn't just another one of those things where FIFA say no we've done nothing and every authority you can think of says OK then and lets them get on with it. People like Warner and Blatter need to get sent to prison for the amount of corruption that's gone on. It's been an open secret for far to long and they are no spring chickens, either now they get sent down or they'll have made a career and ton of money as professional fraudsters.
 
markysimmo said:
Jamie Fuller is chairman of Swiss-bases sportswear brand SKINS and thinks the balance of power lies with the sponsors. He told SSN HQ:
"I'd like nothing more than to hear either VISA or Coke and show the sort of leadership that is lacking within FIFA and to put the ultimatum and that is if Sepp Blatter insists on running an election tomorrow and if he insists on running himself then they should be withdrawing their patronage.
"If not I think there is scope for a number of FAs, the English, the Germans, the Dutch, the Americans, the Canadians and maybe a couple more get together and say 'enough is enough'. It can be done quickly and easily but it needs the sponsors to move because if anything has been proven, FIFA will listen to no one, they care about nothing other than money and it's the money and the sponsors that count."
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this is exactly correct, FIFA yields its power from the billions in sponsorship deals from the World cup and other FIFA tournaments, without the backing of sponsors, they are finished, the FBI, DOJ etc have limited powers to punish FIFA but discrediting this corrupt organisation will do more than any jail sentence they hand down.
 
Blatter will win today and nothing will change at all, absolutely ludicrous situation, the twunt actually thinks he has done nothing wrong
 
markysimmo said:
Blatter will win today and nothing will change at all, absolutely ludicrous situation, the twunt actually thinks he has done nothing wrong
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Yep, after all the events of the last couple days he will still likely stroll the voting and just say how he condemns the recent corruption and pretend everything is rosy.

Anyone else noticed how Greg Dyke seems to be getting more and more desperate in each interview too..
- First it was, this is terrible let's postpone the vote tomorrow,
- then it was, oh Blatter should resign everyone has had enough of him,
- then it was, ok actually I think we should go ahead with the vote and everyone should for the challenger,
- now he has realised they won't win the vote he's suggesting, well let's all boycott the Russian World Cup... except apparently no one is up for that and he had to admit if England alone pulled out no one would care.

I think the only way to get Blatter to resign was if all the big companies pulled their sponsorship.. but I think they will just condemn the corruption instead.
 
dingdongo said:
I think the only way to get Blatter to resign was if all the big companies pulled their sponsorship.. but I think they will just condemn the corruption instead.
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What makes you think those working for the sponsors are clean?

Probably not in their interests to blow this up any bigger than it already is.
 
scaramanga said:
What makes you think those working for the sponsors are clean?

Probably not in their interests to blow this up any bigger than it already is.
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They're not, which is why they will just say how appalled they are of recent events... then carry on as normal :mad:
 
platini's words are fascinating, he's skating on the razors edge himself, all his talk about the Russian World Cup could come back and bite him on the ass if they have a proper look at 2022 as well

it does seem a little different this time, hopefully the whole thing will come crashing down and we can start again
 
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