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发信人: gaoyuan66 (gaoyuan66), 信区: Military
标 题: 中国的机会来了！Russia and Qatar could lose the right to host 世界杯
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jun 7 23:51:32 2015, 美东)
(CNN)—the 2018 and 2022 World Cup events if evidence is presented that
bribes bought the votes to award their bids. In an interview with a Swiss
publication, the Sonntagszeitung weekly, FIFA compliance chief Domenico
Scala said, "should evidence be present that the awarding to Qatar and
Russia only came about with bought votes, then the awarding could be void."
Whispers of foul play heard after December 1, when FIFA chose Russia and
Qatar to host soccer's most prominent global competition, are bandied about
more openly now that FIFA is embroiled in a massive scandal, which involves
allegations that bribery helped determine the hosts of earlier World Cups.
The United States has indicted 14 people, including nine top FIFA officials,
on corruption charges.
FIFA had portrayed the ongoing investigation as a progressive step for the
world soccer body. Russia, the world's largest country, and Qatar, a small
Middle Eastern nation, would be new frontiers for the world's favorite
tournament.
The CEO of Russia World Cup 2018 told CNN's Matthew Chance last week that
Russia plans to continue to prepare to organize the event. Alexesy Sorokin
said that Russia's bid was transparent.
"It was clean," he said. "It didn't transgress any FIFA practices, any
practices applicable to the bidding process. What else can we say?"
And Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy released a statement
last week, saying, "The recent events at FIFA will not impact on our
preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup."
Read the transcript.
American Chuck Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member and key
member in the U.S. investigation into the governing body, admitted that he
and other high-ranking officials took bribes ahead of the 1998 and 2010
World Cups, according to court records.
Trinidad's justice and legal affairs minister is calling on the lone
indicted FIFA official from his country to go to New York to face trial in
the scandal that's struck the soccer world like a dirty slide tackle.
"Trinidad and Tobago is not Jack Warner," Minister Prakash Ramadhar of the
Caribbean nation said Sunday. "It really is about restoring a sense of
decency to the politics of Trinidad and Tobago. And we made a call to Mr.
Warner to save us all from the infamy that he has brought upon us to go
hastily to America and have his trial. And if he has truth to bring, let it
be so, so that we can put this behind us and learn from the errors of the
past, and move on to ensure we do not repeat them in the future.
Warner is the former vice president of soccer's international governing body
. He and his 13 fellow defendants have been charged by the U.S. Justice
Department with a total of 47 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, money
laundering, bribery, and other offenses. Interpol notified member nations on
Wednesday that arrest warrants have been issued for Warner and five of the
other indicted officials.
Ramadhar, a long-time political adversary of Warner's in Trinidad and Tobago
, said Warner is inviting ridicule of the their homeland, and questioned why
Warner won't go directly to New York to face charges.
"I am a lawyer and I know the innocent rush to an early trial," Ramadhar
said.
Blatter stands down
Since U.S. prosecutors handed down the indictment on May 26, Warner has
threatened to expose the inner workings of FIFA and its president Sepp
Blatter, who was recently re-elected to a fifth term but just days later
announced he would step down.
On Wednesday, Warner released a paid political TV ad, titled "Jack Warner:
The Gloves are Off," in which he said he had prepared a comprehensive series
of documents on FIFA's transactions, including checks and corroborated
statements.
In the TV ad, aired in his native Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday, Warner
said he would "no longer keep secrets for those persons who now seek
actively to destroy this country's hard-won international image."
He also said, "I reasonably and surely fear for my life." He did not
elaborate.
Warner, head of Trinidad and Tobago's Independent Liberal Party, has denied
all the charges against him, and said in a statement that he had not been
interviewed by authorities and "the actions of FIFA no longer concern me."
Should FIFA elect a woman to replace Sepp Blatter?
The indictment accuses Warner of taking a $10 million bribe to vote for
South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup, saying South Africa was willing to
pay $10 million to the Caribbean Football Union "to support the African
diaspora" in exchange for Warner's and two other conspirators' votes to put
the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, instead of Morocco. The South African
bid committee has denied any impropriety in the payment.
The Sunday Times of London reports that secret tapes exposing the rigged
voting process for the 2010 Cup were suppressed by FIFA and Blatter, until
their release last week.
The BBC reported Sunday that documents show three wire transfers totaling $
10 million from FIFA to CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American
and Caribbean Association Football) accounts controlled by Warner from the
winter of 2008. Then, the documents suggest, Warner used that money for cash
withdrawals, personal loans, and to launder money, the BBC reported.
There was no immediate response from Warner to those reports in British
media.
In all, prosecutors allege FIFA officials took more than $150 million in
bribes to provide "lucrative media and marketing rights" to soccer
tournaments.
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