FIFA officials received from South Africa spent $ 10 million for personal needs – RBC

The former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner

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According to the investigation Bi-bi-si, Warner received from South Africa spent $ 10 million on their personal needs. The sum was transferred to the accounts of the Confederation of Football in North, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), led by Warner, in three transactions from January to March 2008. According to football officials, the funds were to go to the development of football among the African Diaspora.

Of the $ 10 million that was Warner, $ 4.8 million were transferred to the JTA Supermarkets, a large supermarket chain in Trinidad and Tobago of which is Warner. The largest tranche, $ 1.36 million, was held in February 2008. About $ 1.6 million spent on repayment of Warner’s own loans. Another $ 360 thousand. Were removed from the account CONCACAF people close to Warner.

According to the journalists at the disposal of the documents, the largest loan that Warner returned from a FIFA funds, amounted to $ 410 thousand., As the largest payment of credit card debt – $ 87 thousand.

Warner is one of the main defendants in the case of corruption in FIFA, which led US investigators. According to them, $ 10 million received from South Africa, could be a bribe African country to host the 2010 World Cup. The South African government and the leadership of FIFA rejects these accusations. Warner, in late May, surrendered to police in Trinidad and Tobago, after which he was released on bail.

Earlier, the fact of receiving bribe FIFA officials for the elections of the housewives of the world championships in 1998 and 2010 found the former secretary general of the CONCACAF Charles Blazer.

The accusation of bribery in the selection of the host country of World Cup 2010 – part of a larger antikorrruptsionnogo case against FIFA officials. According to US investigators, for 20 years, since the beginning of the 1990s the volume of corruption in the leadership of the Football Federation reached $ 150 million. Due to the corruption scandal was forced to leave his post just re-elected FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter.