the last days of the fifa

FIFA at the level of the mafia, accused of corruption and money laundering

The scandal involving FIFA after the arrest on Wednesday in Switzerland of seven of its highest charges accused of corruption, is the first serious investigation and rigor that is made around corruption in football. This time the intervention of the FBI and the Justice of the United States threatens to give a harsh punishment to the world soccer federation. US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the US Department of Justice "is determined to end corruption in the world of football" in a conference in which he charged FIFA officials accused of corruption, as he reports. The New york Times.

Loretta Lynch is the same prosecutor who punished six of the world's biggest banks for manipulating the price of currencies and interest rates. And so it refers to the top leaders of football: "They corrupted the business of football worldwide to serve their interests and to enrich themselves." And he asked the countries to help the investigation. "We will applaud the collaboration of partners from around the world to arrest more involved."

As she did with the bank, Prosecutor Loretta Lynch has the upper hand and numerous information that has not yet been released to help catch more people responsible for a level of mafia and corruption that has been compared to the Cosa Nostra. of Italy or the Mexican drug cartels. They are more than two decades of research with five years of recordings captured by hidden microphones of meetings and telephone conversations that are being investigated. This is how it is known that Jack Warner, member of the committee of Trinidad and Tobago, received 10 million dollars in 2004 for approving the candidacy of South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. His vote was the one that decided the venue.

Decades of corruption investigated

Corruption in football has dragged on for decades, US officials said on Wednesday, monitoring all suspicious moves that FIFA leaders have made in the financial system. Deposits of 10 or 20 million dollars that have not been declared and have evaded all types of taxes are today in the sights of Attorney Loretta Lynch, who supervised the investigation from its earliest stages when he was the attorney for the Eastern District of New York, more than fifteen years ago.

"These individuals have participated in bribes to decide where football matches will be played and who will televise them all over the world" - says the Prosecutor - "They did this year after year, tournament after tournament".

US justice argues that the crimes committed by FIFA's senior officials were agreed upon and planned in US territory and that the payments of millionaire bribes were made through US banks. This is a list of the top FIFA officials and executives caught up in the 20-year investigation by Loretta Lynch.

Two vice-presidents of FIFA, the Uruguayan Eugenio Figueredo and Jeffrey Webb, of the Cayman Islands, as well as the former president of the Conmebol, the Paraguayan Nicolás Leoz, are among the defendants before the New York court for "mafia organization, massive fraud and laundering of money ", among others. And there is no doubt that in the coming days will be announced new names of this dark plot that muddies the world of football.

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