FIFA: lying and deception in the executive suite The whole world seems to doubt the fair election of Russia and Qatar to cherish - completely and rightly so. Football passion shows you all the swamp of corruption and looks behind the scenes at the world governing body FIFA. By our star reporter - Gene Travers - provide investigative and highest danger acquired information is the basis for this article dar.
By Gene Travers
double election in the shadow of accusations
New York / Zurich - one here has made plain be. Of course, FIFA is corrupt and of course some of the key people sold their votes. But to do now, as if what would be new is a bit naive. Or does this actually one that Franz Beckenbauer, many years ago only had balloons in his suitcase when he flew around the world and called for Germany to host the 2006 World Cup?
The fact that been awarded for the first time and without cause two tournaments at once, makes the thing really disgusting. The real reasons for this stand are obvious: a double winner, twice the profit.
The elderly members of the Executive Committee will see the tournaments in eight and twelve years, probably not. Due to the double award, they have their pockets full cut again correctly - so you can abnibbeln with a grin on the face and a hot blonde on his lap on a deserted Pacific island.
is all the more outrageous because even the recent statement made Blatter, that he thought the double award to be useful. But why he does that, yes, that remains his secret. Franz Beckenbauer was the decision of the Double award mince words: "It was a mistake to award the two world championships together, the reason was the planning. - Maybe you can sell two world championships in a row better than one. In retrospect, all agree that it was a mistake. "
One hand washes the other
addition, it should have given prior agreements between Spain and Qatar. Presumably, both countries have given her voice to the other - if not sold. Executive Committee member Mohamed Bin Hammam on Monday confirmed indirectly that there might have been a deal between Qatar and Spain. It is said to have come to agreements between him and the English FIFA vice-president Angel Maria Villar: "If there is a deal between me and Angel Maria from Spain or other members of the Executive Committee - then I do not see it as a problem. Perhaps you see the European perspective as a problem, "said Bin Hammam, while head of the Asian confederation, in the ARD Sports Show." They do not complain in Qatar and Spain. Guilt is the system that two world championships to be decided on the same day, "said Bin Hamman and struck in the same line as Beckenbauer.
New bribery allegations
looks much more dramatic it there, to the simmering corruption scandal . In the wake of the revelations were in mid-November, six officials, including the two Executive Committee members Amos Adamu (Nigeria) and Reynald Temarii (Tahiti) are suspended. They should have hawked their votes for the World Cup award. That this is only the tip of the iceberg seems to be the British BBC journalist Andrew Jennings underscored just over a week. His published research burden three recent high-FIFA members difficult.
Ricardo Teixeira from Brazil, Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay - who is also head of the South American confederation CONMEBOL, as well as Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, President of the African Confederation CAF, all have had in the years 1989-1999 bribe several times, sometimes with millions of dollars. Teixeira, Leoz Hayatou and three of twenty-two voters from the Executive Committee, which also sits Franz Beckenbauer. This body decides on the allocation of World Cup and actually has 24 members. But with the suspension of Amos Adamu (Nigeria) and Reynald Temarii (Tahiti) because of unethical behavior - or just call it corrupt characters - there remained only 22 votes.
sender of the payment to FIFA officials, incidentally, was the sports rights company ISL, which went into bankruptcy in 2001. ISL distributed over decades highly paid contracts with the help of bribes and front companies. A Swiss court had in a process in 2008 for the period 1999 to 2001 ISL-payments of the equivalent of fourteen million € noted. Recipients were senior sports officials, among them already Teixeira and Leoz. Founder of ISL was the former boss Horst Dassler Adidas, who died in 1987.
But that's not enough, to make matters worse, there may be another legal consequences. "It is quite possible that the election can be challenged successfully. In the FIFA Statutes, in which Article 30 clearly states that the Executive Committee consists of 24 members. If a member, it must be replaced immediately. This can we understood that at least 24 members must be invited so that the election is valid in any case. Should the International Sport Court of Arbitration come to the same view, the choice should be repeated, "had the Frankfurt Sportrechtler Nicolas Roessler said.
