The former FIFA officials said bribery in the selection of the host of the championship – RBC

The former secretary general of the Confederation of Football in North and Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), and a former member of the FIFA Executive Committee, American Chuck Blazer acknowledged receiving bribes during the election of the host countries of the world championships in 1998 and 2010.

According to the Blazer, he was involved in corruption and other officials, reports BBC BBC. The names of these persons is not yet known.

70-year-old Blazer – one of the defendants in the scandalous cases of corruption in FIFA, who in 2013 pleaded guilty to extortion and money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and pledged pay a fine of $ 1.9 million. At the moment he is terminally ill.

As previously wrote The New York Times, the US Justice Department built a case against FIFA on the basis of testimony and information obtained from it. Blazer went to deal with the investigation in 2011. Also testifying, he secretly kept an audio recording of his meeting with colleagues from FIFA, including representatives of the Bid Committee.

According to the newspaper New York Daily News, among those invited to her blazer to London similar meetings were also members of the Russian Committee – Vitaly Mutko, Alexei Sorokin (Head of the Russian bid committee). Whether they accepted the invitation, it is unknown.

On May 27 in Switzerland at the request of US Department of Justice had been detained seven high-ranking FIFA officials on corruption charges. According to the US investigation, for the past 20 years they allegedly received bribes at the conclusion of the marketing deals and the sale of broadcasting rights to international football competitions in North America. Total in figure 14.

Along the Swiss prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on bribes when choosing a place of 2018 FIFA World Cup and the first in 2022, which will be held in Russia and Qatar. In the present case had questioned ten people who took part in the election of the hosts of the World Championships.

May 29 passed the next election of the president of FIFA, which has been re-elected Sepp Blatter. However, the criticism on June 2, he announced his intention to retire. Blatter will manage the organization for at least another four months.