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FIFA’s shock Blatter claims
- Updated: June 3, 2016
FIFA’s lawyers claim Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner wrongly profited by £55m from the organisation in the past five years.
Former FIFA president Blatter, former secretary general Valcke and former deputy secretary general Kattner “enriched” themselves – according to investigators – with a series of salary increases, bonuses and incentives in the past five years, some of which broke the law.
“The evidence appears to reveal a coordinated effort by three former top officials of FIFA to enrich themselves through annual salary increases, World Cup bonuses and other incentives totalling more than CHF 79m [£55m] – in just the last five years,” said Bill Burck, a partner with Quinn Emanuel, the lawyers appointed to conduct the investigation.
A statement from FIFA read: “It is clear that the preliminary findings indicate that the payments and contracts warrant considerable further investigation.
“FIFA has shared this information with the Office of the Swiss Attorney General and it will brief the U.S. Department of Justice on the matters as well.”
The Swiss Attorney General confirmed on Friday …
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