Top FIFA aide linked to money transfer key to indictment - NYT

U.S. authorities believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing unnamed law-enforcement officials. The newspaper said FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke is the unidentified “high-ranking FIFA official” who prosecutors say transferred the sum in 2008 to another FIFA official, Jack Warner. The newspaper said Vlacke’s alleged involvement is sure to raise more questions about what Blatter, who was re-elected on Friday to a fifth term as head of FIFA, knew about the money transfer.

Let’s be clear, if this atmosphere prevails at FIFA, I have no place there. If you are faced with an abscess, simple medication does not suffice. You have to cut it open.

FIFA medical chief Michel D'Hooghe

A Paraguayan judge placed the ex-president of the South American Football Confederation, Nicolas Leoz, under house arrest Monday after he was charged in a sweeping US probe of corruption at FIFA. Leoz is among nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives hit with U.S. graft charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. He was a member of governing body FIFA’s executive committee for more than a decade. Michel D'Hooghe, the longest-serving member of FIFA’s Executive Committee, has also threatened to quit unless soccer’s governing body is substantially reformed.

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