FIFA’s Blatter defiant about US corruption probe
Newly re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter has tried to distance himself from FIFA’s corruption scandal involving $150 million in bribes.Blatter said Saturday in Zurich that he was not the “high-ranking…
British banks to review possible corrupt FIFA payments
Two British banks say they have launched internal reviews into how allegedly corrupt payments were funneled through their institutions as part of the years-long world football bribery scheme.…
Costa Rica football federation received bribe from U.S. company for Eduardo Li: Prosecutors
According to a 161-page indictment by prosecutors in the United States, the Costa Rican Football Federation (Fedefútbol) received a bribe on behalf of its president, Eduardo Li, from a U.S.…
Latin America hails FIFA indictments that hit long-serving soccer bosses
A sprawling U.S. criminal probe into the "World Cup of fraud" within global soccer touched hard on Latin America and the Caribbean and made clear that many disgusted fans were…
President of Costa Rica’s soccer federation amongst those arrested in major FIFA corruption scandal
Football's global governing body, FIFA, was rocked Wednesday by a massive U.S. federal corruption indictment against current and former top officials and the announcement of a separate investigation by Swiss…
