Saturday, 6 June 2015

IMAGINE: FIFA Whistleblower Chuck Blazer's $250,000 cheque for 'voting for South Africa to host 2010 World Cup'

The payment was part of the $750,000 the FIFA whistleblower received in exchange for his vote ahead of the 2010 tournament. 

This is the $250,000 cheque Chuck Blazer received as part of a payment to allegedly vote for South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup.
The FIFA whistlebowler reportedly received $750,000 in exchange for his vote.
It comes after Blazer revealed he and other FIFA executive committee members accepted bribes in exchange for votes during the bidding process for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.
The US indictment states of the cheque: "The third payment, in the amount of $250,000, was made by check drawn on an account held in the name of CFU at Republic Bank in Trinidad and Tobago.
"The check was delivered to Co-Conspirator £1 [Blazer] by another individual who travelled by airplane from Trinidad and Tobago to JFK International Airport in Queens, New York, and then to CONCACAF's headquarters in New York where he delivered the check to Co-Conspirator £1 [Blazer]."
2011 FIFA Chuck Blazer, Chairman of the Organising Committee for the FIFA Club World Cup
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Blazer was arrested in 2011 as he made he way down a Manhattan street in his mobility scooter.
Sources say he was given an ultimatum on the sidewalk to either help prosecutors or face a lengthy prison sentence.
Blazer told the court: “Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, '1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003 Gold (World) Cups.
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“Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup.
“Among other things, my actions described above had common participants and results."
His evidence indicates widespread corruption among officials at the tournaments in America, France, South Korean and Japan, Germany and South Africa. Anyways we as Soccer lovers are just so baffled at the amount or level of Corruption, even Africa's first ever World cup is looking like a sham now.

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