Guardian campaign sensational on the “corruption” of FIFA. The list of those present at the vote also includes Putin, Beckham …
Today the Guardian publishes a series of Articles On the scandal of assigning Qatar to the World Cup this year. The key word is “corruption”. The main foreign newspapers, in turn, in recent months have not failed to emphasize how “wrong” this World Cup is in terms of respect for human rights and the minimum wage in the assignments. From the Germans at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (who “follow up” the Infantino story with special emphasis) to L’Equipe, to the English. This morning, the Daily Mail – as a tabloid – dedicates the most itchy part of the same issue: the 150 million decade in ten years David Beckham was an ambassador for at the World Cup.
Among the Guardian Pieces there This is a simple list But it does illustrate perfectly the context in which the Winter World Cup mission has matured: the list of those who voted that day, name by name, and position after position. And above all, what happened to them next. Spoiler: They have more or less everything, a bad ending. There is everything: from Beckham to Putin …
- Sepp Blatter … then the President of FIFA, overseeing the commissioning process. Now banned from football.
- Julio Grondona…died in 2014, accused by his colleagues of corruption in the FIFA trial in the USA.
- Michel Platini … then the President of the European Football Association. He just served a four-year ban.
- Issa Hayatou… A former member of FIFA. He is now accused in parliament of accepting $1.5 million from Qatar for his vote. He was also accused, shortly before the vote, of accepting bribes for television contracts. He strongly denies both allegations. And in February, a year of disqualification before the Tribunal for Sport (TAS) was disqualified due to “insufficient evidence”.
- Jack Warner … a former FIFA member. Banned from football for life.
- Angel Maria Villar … a former member of FIFA. He was penalized for not cooperating with the investigation into the bidding procedures for the World Cup. He was arrested on suspicion of embezzlement in 2017 and resigned from FIFA. So the charges against the Spaniard were dropped.
- Chung Mong Joon… a former FIFA member, was banned from football for six years by the FIFA Ethics Committee for his role in South Korea’s bid for the 2022 World Cup.
- Michel D Hogg…formerly FIFA. He admitted that he accepted a “small plaque” from a consultant in the Russia 2018 dossier.
- Ricardo Teixeira…formerly FIFA. He was appointed by Criminal Investigations as a bribery taker in connection with extensive television contracts, which FIFA was aware of during the Blatter era. The Brazilian has been banned from playing football for life.
- Mohammed Bin Hammam, a former FIFA member and president of the Asian Football Confederation. Banned from playing football for life due to “conflict of interest”.
- Chuck Blazer … a former member of FIFA. deceased. US Attorney General’s Informer. He admitted that he conspired with other members of FIFA to accept bribes in conjunction with previous World Cup bids.
- Rawi Makudi … a former member of FIFA. He was banned from playing football, initially for five years, by FIFA after being found guilty of holding a fraudulent election campaign, but TASS overturned the ban after Thailand’s criminal conviction was overturned.
- Nicholas Lewis … a former member of FIFA. He was accused of taking bribes in the 1990s in exchange for World Cup television contracts. He passed away in 2019.
- Franz Beckenbauer … formerly FIFA. He investigated in 2016 for fraud and money laundering as part of the 2006 World Cup that was held in Germany. The investigation ended in 2020 without a ruling due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. He denied any wrongdoing.
- Rafael Salguero…formerly FIFA. The Guatemalan pleaded guilty to several corruption charges in 2016 and spent three years under house arrest.
- Vitaly Mutko…formerly FIFA. Wada accused him of overseeing Russia’s state-sponsored doping programme. Banned for life from the Olympics.
- Jeff Thompson … a former member of FIFA, responsible for the presentation of the English World Cup. Not in football anymore.
- Marius Lefkaritis … is the subject of an investigation by the Sunday Times to find out whether Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund paid £27m for a plot of land for his family. The Cypriots strongly denied any wrongdoing. Still in FIFA.
- Jack Anuma… Ex-FIFA. He was accused in the British Parliament of accepting a $1.5 million bribe to vote for Qatar. The Ivorian denied the allegations. He lost his place in FIFA.
- Junji Ogura … is a retired former FIFA member. In 2015, he denied that top Japanese football officials had paid $1.5 million to South American confederations in exchange for Japan’s support for the 2002 World Cup in South Korea.
- Sens Irzek…formerly retired FIFA.
- Hani Abu Reda .. Al-Masry is still a member of FIFA.
- Amos Adamu … banned the football administration for three years for violating corruption rules, and the accusations were first brought in the Sunday Times before the vote. The Nigerian has been banned for another two years since 2017 for violating FIFA ethics.
- Reynald Tamari… The president of the Tahiti Football Federation has been banned for eight years for taking money from Bin Hammam before voting to pay legal fees for another FIFA World Cup disciplinary case.
- Jerome Valcke … then Secretary General of FIFA. He was fired in 2016 and banned from football for 10 years by FIFA. The Swiss Court of Appeal sentenced him to an 11-month suspended prison sentence on corruption charges.
- Rafael Esquivel … CONMEBOL member, President of the Venezuelan Football Federation. He was arrested as part of the 2015 investigation. Banned from playing football. He pleaded guilty in the United States to seven counts of conspiracy, racketeering, conspiracy to defraud computer and conspiracy to launder money.
- Eugenio Figueiredo … Vice President of CONMEBOL. Arrested as part of the 2015 investigation. The Uruguayan has been banned from football for taking bribes in connection with commercial deals for the South American Championships.
- Alfredo Hawitt, CONCACAF officer. Arrested in a Swiss investigation 2015. Banned from playing football for life.
- Harold Mayne-Nicholls … Head of Evaluation for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup. He has now been banned from football for seven years by FIFA’s Ethics Committee due to requests he made to an organization linked to the Qatar nomination team on behalf of his team members. Chilean family and athletes. The ban was reduced to three years on appeal to FIFA, and then to two years after TAS.
Attended the vote:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Boris Johnson
- Roman Abramovich
- David Cameron
- David Beckham.
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