# 16 more indictments in FIFA scandal
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349
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**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349 "2015-12-03T20:22:15Z")
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349/1 "2015-12-03T20:22:15Z")
Including one Rafael Callejas, former president of Honduras.
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> Hours before the Justice Department disclosed that he too was indicted, Mr. Callejas, the president of Honduras in the early 1990s and former general secretary of the nation’s soccer federation, denied he was implicated…
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> When a local news reporter asked about social media speculation that he could face charges, Mr. Callejas said; “Why me? I was never a member of Concacaf or FIFA. People are wondering because they want to wonder. There are some who have evil in their soul but there is no reason to be associated with these issues. Here everyone presumes something.”
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.
[Linky-loo](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/sports/soccer/fifa-scandal-16-more-charged-after-zurich-raid.html).
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### Author:  [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349/2 "2015-12-03T22:24:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349/3 "2015-12-03T22:28:07Z")
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-more-indictments-in-fifa-scandal/739349/4 "2015-12-04T17:47:14Z")
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.