Alejandro Burzaco, Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano Jinkis are among the nine FIFA peaks and five forretningsmennenei sports and media industry that Wednesday were charged with being involved in corruption for $ 150 million in connection with the investigation of corruption in FIFA.
A judge in Buenos Aires issued Thursday arrest warrants for the three men for tax evasion and money laundering. But Friday they were apparently not yet arrested.
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TV footage showed agents from Interpol in the offices of Torneos y Competencia, a company for sports media and promotion, where Burzaco is president.
According to the state news agency Telam police were also in the offices of Full Play, firm Hugo Mariano Jinkis.
According to the FBI formed the three new company named Datis, and through it they acquired lucrative television rights by using $ 110 million in bribes.
Datis signed a contract with the South American Football CONMEBOL for $ 317.5 million for the TV rights to Copa América in 2015, 2019 and 2023.
Datis also got the contract to $ 35 million with the North, Central American and Caribbean Football Association CONCACAF TV rights to another tournament.
Distributed money
Three soccer tops in CONMEBOL, including the president of the Argentine associated AFA, Julio Grondona, should according to the indictment get $ 45 million in bribes for the contract. The rest would be distributed among other peaks.
Although his name is not in the indictment, was Grondona, who for many years was FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s closest co-worker, president of the AFA when the corruption allegedly occurred. He died in 2014 after 35 years as AFA boss.
The Argentine journalist Alejandro Casar, who has specialized in corruption in Latin American football, says Burzaco and Grondona stood apart very close.
Torneos has rejected outright all accusations of corruption. (© NTB)
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