Including one Rafael Callejas, former president of Honduras.
Nice job putting your foot in your mouth, Mr. President. Other new indictments include Hector Trujillo, a judge on the Guatemalan Constitutional Court, the current president of CONCACAF (the North American FIFA affiliate) and a former president of Brazil’s soccer federation.
Does anyone have the jurisdiction just to call FIFA as a whole a corrupt organisation and wind the whole damn thing up? I think that’s the only way we can sort it all out.
Switzerland, possibly. But the legal principal at work in the US indictments is that FIFA is an innocent victim which was defrauded by all of these people embezzling and engaging in commercial bribery.
Thats not a just legal mumbo jumbo. It goes to the heart as to why these are bribery and corrupt practices. The people concerned were supposed to work for the benefit of FIFA; obtaining monies in their personal capacity was not in FIFA’s benefit. It would have been different if they had agreed to benefits *for *FIFA in return for favour.