Corruption

  • 10.03.2006 /
    Nobody sees it, nobody knows and Ruben Acosta takes the money. So are the accusations of Mario Goijman. The defence demands an end to this "game of vindictiveness."
  • 09.03.2006 /
    President Ruben Acosta and former secretary general Jean-Pierre Seppey deny any responsibility for the manipulation of the 2000 annual report for the International Volleyball Federation.
  • 03.03.2006 /
    Troubles continue to build in Trinidad and Tobago for FIFA vice president Jack Warner. A government minister and the Trinidad Expres are now asking FIFA what it knows about a strange deal Jack Warner put together in order to fund four stadiums built for the 2001 World Youth Championships staged in the small island state.
  • 17.02.2006 /
    FIFA vice president Jack Warner has been found guilty of violating FIFA’s Code of Ethics because of his involvement with a travel agency that sells tickets to the World Cup in Germany. Next month FIFA’s Executive Committee will decide whether the penalty for the violation should be expulsion.
  • 17.02.2006 /
    President of the International Judo Federation and member of the IOC, Yong-sung Park, has been convicted of embezzlement and fraud by a court in South Korea.
  • 03.02.2006 /
    Trinidad Express reporter Lasana Liburd has continued his investigations into the affairs of FIFA vice president Jack Warner and has now uncovered evidence that Warner has not been telling the truth about the amount of money that the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) will receive from FIFA for appearing in the World Cup.
  • 19.01.2006 /
    FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is currently at the centre of a World Cup ticket scandal in the small state of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • 22.12.2005 /
    Knowledge bank: Michel Zen-Ruffinen, ousted Secretary General of FIFA, held the closing speech at Play the Game 2005 on road maps for better governance in sport. The sports lawyer gave examples of corruption in sport and some counter measures. However, the real problems are located in sports administration and Zen-Ruffinen called for the public to act as prosecutors on behalf of sport.

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