The foreign football powerbrokers with a big stake in Australia's soccer teams

An investigation into foreign ownership of Australian soccer clubs has uncovered links to an Indonesian executive jailed over a major match-fixing scandal and accusations of "sportswashing" by one of the wealthiest Arab states.

The Bakrie family has strong ties to Indonesian politics. Its patriarch, Aburizal Bakrie, is a former chairman of the notorious Golkar party, the political party of the corrupt former Indonesian president, Suharto.Documents filed with the Australian corporate regulator show the Bakries own Brisbane Roar through an Indonesian holding company, Pelita Jaya Cronus.

"You have the livelihood of so many prominent people and well-respected people and heroes and idols for young kids, on your payroll … you should be held to those same levels of moral and ethical, environmental, social standards that we're holding other companies to," Ms McAlister said.

When A-League club Adelaide United was sold in 2018 by local businessmen — including Adelaide lawyer Greg Griffin — the consortium of Dutch investors who bought it insisted on remaining anonymous. The team is owned by City Football Group, the sports investment company of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the royal family that rules Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

He also singled out two other club figures, chairman Khaldoon al Mubarak and vice-chairman Simon Pearce. The UAE has long been criticised by Amnesty International for its human rights record, according to its Australian chief executive, Sam Klintworth.

Is the Australian government buying A-League club? Iraq, Afghanistan? Australia has asamy skeletons in the closet as any Western country. Pot very much calling kettle black here. As for unheard of in European leagues 😂😂😂 Dumbest comment of year. Looking to EPL tp start

Hatchet job on football? Wow. Who could have seen that coming.

Australia is talking about human rights of other countries 🤣

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