Figueredo recognizes existence South American corruption network – Voetbal International

Former FIFA vice-president Eugenio Figueredo has admitted that there has been talk in recent decades of a large-scale corruption network in the South American football. The 83-year-old Uruguayan, who was twenty years old vice president and two years president of the South American Football Federation (CONMEBOL), recognized himself to blame.

Figueredo was one of the seven FIFA officials which was exercised on May 27 in Zurich just before the FIFA election of his bed and arrested. That time happened at the behest of the FBI. Since then, the Uruguayan was a long time in a Swiss jail. But Thursday Figueredo was extradited by the Swiss authorities in his homeland. The US would like to see Figueredo extradited, but the Swiss justice sent him to his homeland. After all, that the charges against him even harder.

Prosecutor Juan Gómez had already announced that Figueredo would be upon arrival in Montevideo indicted for money laundering and fraud. The Uruguayan would include millions in bribes accepted in exchange for marketing and broadcasting rights of major tournaments. He would also commit obtained a US passport through fraud.

Friday made Gómez announced that Figueredo had spoken not only of a vast corruption network, but that he had admitted to have large sums of money approved for that again elsewhere under to bring. Moreover, the Uruguayan would have made incriminating statements about ten other union presidents.

Piquant is also incriminating statement that would have been recognized over the Spaniard Gorka Villar, son of Ángel María Villar UEFA CEO. Because the actual UEFA president, Michel Platini, has suspended the 65-year-old Spaniard currently takes true. His son is suspected of extorting include various Uruguayan clubs. Villar is senior, like Michael van Praag, in the picture to follow Platini finally as president of European football. The Spaniard became already discredited when he refused to cooperate in the investigation that the American Michael Garcia made on behalf of the Ethics Committee of FIFA to the allocation of the World Cups of 2018 and 2022.

The 83- Figueredo year, which in 2014 still stir caused by the bite of his compatriot Luis Suarez to play down the neck of the Italian Giorgio Chiellini, is stuck awaiting his verdict. His lawyers have asked to be allowed to wait at home the penalty. It is expected that he will get a hefty prison sentence. This punishment can be up to fifteen years in prison, has been playing the fragile health of Figueredo also play a role. Friday he was investigated because of chest pain.