Fraud

  • 22.12.2006 /
    Park Yong-Sung who was suspended from the International Olympic Committee earlier this year after being convicted of fraud in South Korea could be involved in a last minute attempt to save his seat on the IOC. His name is on a list of convicts whom the South Korean president is said to consider for an amnesty.
  • 20.11.2006 /
    One of Sweden’s most well-known football agents has been charged with tax fraud and for breaking the laws concerning proper accounting. Kent Carlzon has several star players on his client list and he is suspected of having intentionally neglected to account for 5,5 million Swedish Crowns in connection with sale of football players.
  • 29.09.2006 /
    FIFA vice president Jack Warner is expected to drop his threat of legal action against the authors of an auditing report and some FIFA officials, reports The Daily Telegraph. But when the story of Warner’s alleged illegal sale of 4,500 World Cup tickets broke earlier this month, he was all set to sue and claimed he had been the victim of a set-up.
  • 12.09.2006 /
    New revelations by investigative reporter Andrew Jennings expose FIFA vice president Jack Warner as the greediest ticket tout during the World Cup. Jennings has obtained copies of confidential reports by auditors Ernst & Young that estimate that the Warner family could have cleared a profit of at least half a million British pounds on illegal sales of World Cup tickets.
  • 10.08.2006 /
    The Seoul High Court in South Korea has turned down an appeal in the case of IOCmemberPark Yong-sung who was convicted of embezzling the Doosan Group earlier this year. The IOC has already suspended Park Yong-sung but must now decide whether he should be expelled permanently.
  • 09.03.2006 /
    He was not allowed to give testimony in the Volleygate case in Lausanne. But now a Swedish former secretary in the FIVB Finance Committee tells the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, how he feels hoodwinked by the FIVB president, Ruben Acosta.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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