FIFA corruption arrests

[Derek Smith]

jmorgan said:

Ha!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33303066

Oh no I didn't (say I was going to resign....)

It might be the best news. If he remains then many European FAs will leave FIFA.

[cirian75]

Sepp Blatter: Fifa president to miss Women's World Cup final

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33338097

"Fifa president Sepp Blatter will not travel to Canada for the final of the Women's World Cup on Sunday for "personal reasons"

Let me guess, all flights go through US airspace.

[kev1974]

Maybe he's still not allowed to leave Switzerland?

[cirian75]

kev1974 said:

Maybe he's still not allowed to leave Switzerland?

That too, poor old Blatter

[Type R Tom]

Laughed when I heard on the radio that Jack Warner has hired Edward Fitzgerald QC who represented Myra Hindley and Abu Hamza in the past. I guess he doesn't want a free holiday to the US any time soon but what a CV!

[Cobnapint]

The US has just sent an extradition request to Switzerland for the 7 FIFA officials arrested in May.

Seven free tickets to America anyone...? Surely that's an offer any FIFA official worth his salts would find difficult to refuse.....

[Axionknight]

I doubt the ameneties will be to their liking,

[hornetrider]

Cobnapint said:

The US has just sent an extradition request to Switzerland for the 7 FIFA officials arrested in May.

Seven free tickets to America anyone...? Surely that's an offer any FIFA official worth his salts would find difficult to refuse.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33359540

No wonder Blatter isn't going to present the World Cup in Canada...

[jmorgan]

Cobnapint said:

Seven free tickets to America anyone...?

And the rest. Even the legal corporate tickets quota is a joke.

[jmorgan]

Ok, he is not going to run again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33401602


But he also blaming the French and Germans for Qatar.

[Chimune]

I was no where near the shed at the time your honour. Not that there was a shed.....

[Cobnapint]

Well that's the first one on his way....

Next...!

http://news.sky.com/story/1519932/first-fifa-offic...

[cirian75]

Cobnapint said:

Well that's the first one on his way....

Next...!

http://news.sky.com/story/1519932/first-fifa-offic...

Blatter's bung hole must be starting to twitch now.

[jmorgan]

And a certain person hiding in an Embassy.

[Soov535]

Cobnapint said:

Well that's the first one on his way....

Next...!

http://news.sky.com/story/1519932/first-fifa-offic...

They are all in serious serious trouble.

Blatter's cornhole must be going like a rabbit's nose.

[Borghetto]

I expect Blatter will do a "Janner". Stay on as president of FIFA whilst suffering dementia.

[anonymous-user]

Are they in serious trouble though? The corporate types just seem to get a couple of hundred grand fine and a note on their record, will they actually see any real-world punishment? Don't get me wrong, I hope they get the book thrown at them, but will the powerful (US judges) go easy on the powerful (FIFA gang)? Maybe Blatter is better off just accepting the slap on the wrist and getting it over and done with.

Not that I know anything about international business and bribery affairs, but I have little faith anything serious will befall them.

[TEKNOPUG]

OpulentBob said:

Are they in serious trouble though? The corporate types just seem to get a couple of hundred grand fine and a note on their record, will they actually see any real-world punishment? Don't get me wrong, I hope they get the book thrown at them, but will the powerful (US judges) go easy on the powerful (FIFA gang)? Maybe Blatter is better off just accepting the slap on the wrist and getting it over and done with.

Not that I know anything about international business and bribery affairs, but I have little faith anything serious will befall them.

FBI? IRS? Tax Evasion? Fraud? US Dollars? It's about the most heinous crime you can commit in the US. They'll do time if convicted of any of the serious charges.

[Soov535]

OpulentBob said:

Are they in serious trouble though? The corporate types just seem to get a couple of hundred grand fine and a note on their record, will they actually see any real-world punishment? Don't get me wrong, I hope they get the book thrown at them, but will the powerful (US judges) go easy on the powerful (FIFA gang)? Maybe Blatter is better off just accepting the slap on the wrist and getting it over and done with.

Not that I know anything about international business and bribery affairs, but I have little faith anything serious will befall them.

Errrrr, yes. Very serious.

The Yanks have no sense of humour about this sort of thing. I expect them to get prisons sentences much longer than they have left in life. And it'll be a proper pentitentiary as well.

This isn't the namby pamby UK they're dealing with here. They're properly f cked.

That serious.

I am a Compliance and Legal Director, and the one thing you do NOT do it fall foul of the US on this sort of thing. Ever. The mistake they made was using USD and putting it through American Banks. Amateurs.

Edited by Soov535 on Thursday 16th July 12:13

[NailedOn]

Borghetto said:

I expect Blatter will do a "Janner". Stay on as president of FIFA whilst suffering dementia.

Or an Ernest Saunders?
Dementia to avoid the law then a 'miracle recovery.'