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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