During a press conference in New York on Wednesday afternoon promised US officials that FIFA summits should be held accountable for their actions.
The storm surrounding FIFA continues unabated after the arrests of several FIFA representatives in Zurich on Wednesday morning.
In New York this afternoon kept the US Justice Department a press conference where they presented the attacks against FIFA and its efforts to uncover extensive bribery and corruption in FIFA general, and not least in CONCACAF particular. CONCACAF is the North and Central American Football Association, which also includes the United States.
President of CONCACAF is among those arrested in Zurich on Wednesday morning.– This is just the beginning, not the end. We will continue work to uncover corruption in organized football, said statdadvokat Kelly T. Currie at the press conference in New York.
Have investigated for many years
Money has changed hands in connection with bribery and buying votes, and several of these transactions have taken place on American soil and using US banking and financial institutions. That is part of why the United States government has now taken action.
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The FBI, the State Prosecution Office and US tax authorities have investigated FIFA long. For years, the powerful sports organization been in the spotlight.
– In the organized world of football has votes been acquired, rights have been assigned by corruption and people have secured their wealth rather than to exercise its mandate to act on behalf of football’s best . For large, valuable and long term agreements as regards rights, but also the allocation of championships, said Loretta E. Lynch, who is Minister of Justice in the US.Butcher of South Africa in the 2010 process
Among in connection with the World Cup in South Africa. In 2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time held on African soil, but Lynch realities process small honor.
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– It was a historic event that VM was first placed there, but the process was marked by corruption and bribery.
Provides help to “organization in crisis’
About CONCACAF she stressed that the US government stands ready to assist:
– This is an organization in crisis. We have already made contact to offer our help to those who are not involved in corruption and bribery. But those involved, for violation of US laws and regulations, shall receive fair treatment. But they should also be held responsible, turn Lynch fixed.
Before she added:– They arrested had football in common, but they also had another thing in common: greed.
Several of those arrested in Switzerland earlier Wednesday has either had or relating to CONCACAF. The people involved, and CONCACAF investigated for gross corruption and bribery in connection with the allocation of rights and championships in FIFA auspices.
– This is the World Cup in corruption, and now we’re giving FIFA the red card, said Richard Weber from the IRS, which is the US tax authorities.
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