31 Oct 2020 12:59AMBELLINZONA, Switzerland:The suspended sentence for Jerome Valcke, the former FIFA number two, in a corruption verdict on Friday in Switzerland may have spared the football world serious embarrassment but the case was only part of an ever-growing list of court proceedings involving the governing body to which an indictment of president Gianni Infantino was recently added.
That seems to have piqued the interest of the American judiciary whose investigation led to the high-profile arrests of seven officials in Zurich in on May 27, 2015 over TV rights corruption on the eve of a FIFA meeting at which Sepp Blatter was re-elected president.FIFA has investigated the Qatar bid. The US Department of Justice this year made clear it still has suspicions.
In April, the Swiss abandoned a trial over the award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany because of the statute of limitations, though a case is still pending in Frankfurt over tax evasion.TV rights, FIFA's main source of revenue, are also its main source of litigation. Because the offences involved US companies or were committed in part in the country, US courts have been able to prosecute.
One of his predecessors, Jack Warner, a former member of the FIFA executive committee, has been indicted but remains in Trinidad and Tobago. They are subject of a long-running Swiss investigation for"unfair management" over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs from FIFA to Platini in 2011 which Blatter approved even though there was no written contract.
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