“Not South Africa, Morocco won assignment World Cup 2010″ – nrc.nl

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The majority of the 24-member executive committee of FIFA which could vote on the allocation of the 2010 World Cup chose Morocco. Nevertheless, the organization of the football tournament to South Africa was because the country offered more money. The English newspaper The Sunday Times says videotapes which have one of the former committee members admit this.

It is a former board member Ismail Bhamjee from Botswana. According to him, after he and colleagues on the normally secret ballot spoke clearly that Morocco had received two votes more than South Africa. On a video recorded by undercover reporters from The Sunday Times he says the vote “were deliberately counted wrong.” With a secret camera in the official result gave South Africa 14 votes against 10 for Morocco .

FIFA tapes five years’

The South African organization of the tournament in 2010 is suspected by General Secretary of FIFA Jerome Valcke to have $ 10 million bribe paid to former vice-president Jack Warner from Trinidad and Tobago. Warner is one of the main suspects in the corruption scandal surrounding the football organization.

The FIFA acknowledged in a statement that $ 10 million was transferred to the Caribbean ‘development’, but that high FIFA officials not there were involved. Today reported a South African newspaper, however, that was both president Sepp Blatter and Valcke involved in that transaction. In addition, published the BBC this afternoon the news that Warner most of the money in their own pocket would have stabbed.

The Sunday Times further writes that the videotape has already presented five years ago to FIFA on the assumption that the world football would come into action. On the tapes Bhamjee says that Morocco kickbacks paid to Warner. It would be a sum of $ 1 million. Warner denies all accusations like Valcke. He announced himself with an “avalanche” of evidence of corruption of others to come within FIFA.

resell Tickets

It is unclear how reliable the statements of his Bhamjee. He was expelled in 2006 as a member of the executive committee of FIFA after it became known that he contests for tickets to the World Cup in Germany for three times as high prices would resell. Then he was in 2010, four years banned from football for his role in the questionable allocation of the World Cups of 2018 and 2022 respectively, Russia and Qatar.

The Sunday Times a good reputation in the field of reporting on FIFA. Revelations of the newspaper after a undercoveroperatie led to the suspension of two members of FIFA, because they involved would have to corruption in the allocation of the World Cups in 2018 and 2022. Also led their reporting to the internal investigation that FIFA had carried through Michael Garcia. The report and its findings has been completed, but never revealed completely.

Crisis at the FIFA

Since last week the FBI fourteen officials arrested and the Swiss Justice raided is at the head office The crisis at FIFA. More and more scandals drain. Thus, FIFA would have paid $ 5 million to Ireland to prevent the country to take legal action to enforce such placement for the World Cup. President Sepp Blatter announced that he step back following the corruption scandals.

The scandals have consequences for future organizers Russia and Qatar. Today, the Swiss newspaper published Sonntagszeitung an interview with Domenico Scala, the head of the reform committee of FIFA, where he says that if evidence is provided that the two countries were the World Cups by buying votes, which the allocation process than can be annulled. That evidence is not yet, according to Scala

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