Fifa denies that the Secretary-General knew about million payout, here is the letter … – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): FIFA farce seem endless and circus progress with increasing torque. When the New York Times today wrote about the high-ranking FIFA official was behind a million payment to the corruption accusations former CONCACAF president Jack Warner, refused Fifa said in a statement that it concerned general secretary Sepp Blatter’s right hand, Jerome Valcke.

– Your payments amounting to 10 million USD was authorized by the Chairman of the Finance Committee and conducted in accordance with the organization’s rules, wrote Fifa press release.

– Neither General Jerome Valcke, or any of the other members of Fifa’s top management was involved in the project, called it forth.

Letter Bomba

Some small hours later posted the British journalist Martyn Ziegler a letter on Twitter that apparently proves the opposite.

The letter, which is addressed directly to Valcke at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, and with the South African Football Association as the sender, beats states that the ten million dollars would be taken from the Organizing Committee budget, and transferred to the CONCACAF president, that Jack Warner, had jurisdiction over the continued allocation of money.

The project was called “The Diaspora Legacy Programme.”

If the letter Ziegler posted are real and are the same letter New York Times refers to, it may be difficult for Fifa and General Valcke continue to deny that they were involved in money transfers.

– Nothing new

There is also this FBI has emerged so far in the investigation, but to Dagbladet insists Valcke through FIFA’s press office that neither he nor anyone else Fifa-tops has been involved in the project.

– There is nothing new in this. The letter is consistent with our statement that emphasized that it is FIFA’s finance committee that has taken the final decision. Very generally, it is FIFA Secretary General who receive all letters and requests on behalf of the administration, and he acts in accordance with FIFA rules. We also want to emphasize that neither the secretary general Jerome Valcke, or anyone else in Fifa’s top management was involved in initiating, approving or implementing Diaspora project, writing a Fifa spokesman in an e-mail to Dagbladet.

Valcke, who should have been present during the football World Cup in Canada for only a few days remaining in Zurich as a result of the ongoing corruption investigation against Fifa.