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• Former Fifa official Warner ‘fears for his life’
• Marta: Next Fifa president ‘could be a woman’
• David Beckham hits out a ‘despicable’ Fifa corruption
• Chuck Blazer exposes bribery in explosive testimony
• FBI probing how Russia and Qatar were awarded World Cups
• South Africa gives press conference denying bribe
• Interpol issues wanted person alerts for former Fifa officials
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Last night the FBI’s key informant Chuck Blazer laid bare the decades-long schemes of bribery and back-handers that stretch all the way from France 1998 to South Africa 2010 and, probably, beyond.
In forty pages of explosive testimony, the corrupt American football official Chuck Blazer admitted “accepting bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as host of the 2010 World Cup” and also to “facilitating the acceptance of a bribe in conjunction with the selection of the host nation for the 1998 World Cup.”
• Former Fifa official Warner ‘fears for his life’
• Marta: Next Fifa president ‘could be a woman’
• David Beckham hits out a ‘despicable’ Fifa corruption
• Chuck Blazer exposes bribery in explosive testimony
• FBI probing how Russia and Qatar were awarded World Cups
• South Africa gives press conference denying bribe
• Interpol issues wanted person alerts for former Fifa officials
Within the situation to which this post refers there is a vast range of opinion, claim and counter claim, but the only persons who know the truth are those individuals concerned, but are those now speaking telling the truth or not.
Only time will tell or will it, for is a verdict one way or another only, also, a matter of opinion.
The time is long overdue that all organisations should be open, honest and transparent, be they Governments, public, private or voluntary organisation, however can this ever be achieved. I say this because you will always have the human element involved and who of us can say we are always open, honest and transparent.
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