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FIFA's No 2 linked to payments

By Reuters In New York | China Daily | Updated: 2015-06-03 08:04

US contends secretary-general Valcke transferred $10million-source

 FIFA's No 2 linked to payments

FIFA president Sepp Blatter (left) shakes hands with FIFA generalsecretary Jerome Valcke during the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland last week.Agence France Presse File

US prosecutors 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, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary-general, is described in an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, as an unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" who in 2008 transferred the sum to another FIFA official, Jack Warner.

Valcke is not named as a defendant and has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He was not immediately available for comment.

A spokesman for FIFA said the $10 million in bank transactions were authorized by the then-FIFA Finance Committee chairman.

The Finance Committee chairman was Julio Grondona, who died last year.

Valcke and Blatter are the top two officials within FIFA.

Valcke's connection to the case was first reported by The New York Times. The newspaper said Valcke had written in an e-mail to the Times that he neither had authorized the payment nor had the power to do so.

As new questions arose in the FIFA scandal, more officials were arrested, suspended or banned on Monday, and countries were weighing a World Cup boycott amid controversy over the reelection of Blatter as FIFA president on Friday.

As news broke of Valcke's alleged connection to the case, FIFA announced Valcke would not attend the opening of the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada, slated to begin on Saturday, as previously scheduled.

"It is important that he attends to matters at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich," FIFA said in a statement.

Warner, a former FIFA vice-president, is among 14 FIFA officials and corporate executives charged by the US Department of Justice last Wednesday with running a criminal enterprise that involved more than $150 million in bribes.

Warner left jail in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday after he was granted bail, according to local media.

"Why are there no investigations in Asia or in Europe?" Warner asked German magazine Stern in an interview released on Monday.

"Why are there no investigations into Sepp Blatter? No other person has brought so much shame and disgrace on FIFA."

A court transcript released on Monday said Warner's son, Daryan Warner, secretly agreed in 2013 to cooperate with US authorities and to admit to participating in a World Cup ticket-reselling scheme.

Like his brother Daryll, Daryan agreed to assist US authorities as part of separate plea deals. The transcript, ordered released by a federal judge in Brooklyn, contained Daryan's guilty plea.

The $10 million payment is a key feature of the indictment accusing Warner of taking a bribe in exchange for helping South Africa secure the right to host the 2010World Cup.

The indictment said an arrangement had been made with FIFA officials to have $10 million that otherwise would have gone to South Africa to support the World Cup to the Caribbean Football Union, where Warner was president.

The indictment said the high-ranking FIFA official identified on Monday as Valcke caused $10 million to be wired to accounts controlled by Warner, who subsequently diverted portions of the money for his personal use and to personal accounts, the indictment said.

Meanwhile, England has called for a World Cup boycott but a senior UEFA official cast doubt on an outright move, while Sweden's soccer authorities have not ruled out the possibility of a boycott, Swedish FA chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson said.

Following Blatter's re-election as FIFA president, the English Football Association's chairman, Greg Dyke, said his organization would support any boycott led by UEFA.

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