Thursday 12 July 2012

Court orders FIFA to release kickbacks documents


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Switzerland’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of a document identifying which senior football officials took millions of dollars in payments from the ISL agency, FIFA’s marketing partner until it collapsed into bankruptcy 11 years ago.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal said a panel of five judges ruled it was in the public interest for five media organizations to get copies of a Zug cantonal (state) court settlement document which closed a criminal probe of the ISL case in May 2010.
‘’The names of the persons concerned, and personal and financial circumstances taken into account by the authorities, must equally be divulged to reporters,’’ the court said in a statement.
The officials, who had appealed to Switzerland’s highest court to block publication, are widely reported to be former FIFA president Joao Havelange and his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira.
The Zug court document details which officials repaid $6.1m on condition their identities remain secret.
FIFA said it would issue a statement on the case later Wednesday.

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