Regarding the money laundering case and claim against FIFA, the news is up today that Football’s world governing body has been at the focal point of debasement cases subsequent to the late spring, after United States prosecutors charged authorities. SFO chief David Green said the organization had no locale to follow Fifa under remuneration laws. “We are as yet looking at issues around conceivable government evasion,” he said. Fifa has affirmed it will hold the race to decide Sepp Blatter’s presidential successor at an extraordinary congress on 26 February, 2016, with the due date for hopefuls now passed. Swiss Blatter, 79, and Uefa supervisor Michel Platini, 60, are suspended while Fifa researches reports that a £1.35m installment was made in 2011 for work Platini did as Blatter’s counselor. Both men deny any wrongdoing and are engaging against their 90-day bans.
Torment claims ‘awful lies’ – Salman. The asserted government evasion includes the offering for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. One of these included a £270,000 installment by the Australia 2022 offer board of trustees to previous Fifa vice president Jack Warner, which may have experienced London. Green said, “I cannot confirm the assertion that money went through London – it certainly started off in Sydney and appears to have ended up in Trinidad.
“It could be money laundering, yes. Whether the money came through London is important. There are outstanding matters which touch upon money laundering. There are a number of matters we are still looking at and digging in to.”
Liberian Football Association president Musa Bility, one of eight potential possibilities for the Fifa administration, says he shows the main dependable choice for the initiative of world football’s governing body. Bility said he had gotten the imperative five assignments, which had originate from outside the West African district, with a specific end goal to remain after designations shut on Monday for the Fifa decision. On talking with BBC he said, “I don’t see any real challengers because all the others who are running have played some part and if we have to reform football, none of them should be given the right to run the organization”.
He did likewise say he could move to one side if Africa embraced South African government official Tokyo Sexwale. Individual presidential competitors Jerome Champagne and David Nakhid have declined to say which football affiliations had supported them.