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Blatter to create FIFA anti-corruption committee
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January 4, 2011, Tuesday
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter is to set up a new committee to ensure his organization is free of corruption after scandals surrounding the votes for World Cup hosting.
An independent anti-corruption committee would improve FIFA's credibility, Blatter told Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung.
"I will take care of it personally, to ensure there is no corruption at FIFA," Blatter said.
He aims to present the project to FIFA's congress of 208 football nations in June, where he will stand for presidential re-election seeking a fourth four-year term in office.
"This committee will strengthen our credibility and give us a new image," said Blatter, who acknowledged last month that FIFA "can't go on like this" after the World Cup voting process damaged the governing body's reputation.
FIFA officials were accused of bribe-taking and vote-trading before the 2018 and 2022 World Cup elections last month. Russia and Qatar, respectively, were awarded the tournaments.
FIFA's ethics court investigated and barred two of the 24-member executive committee, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, from voting based on evidence provided from an undercover sting by British newspaper, The Sunday Times.
Adamu, from Nigeria, became the first FIFA official suspended for bribery, and is serving a three-year ban from all football duty.
Temarii, a FIFA vice president from Tahiti, was given a one-year ban for breaching rules on confidentiality and loyalty. Both men have said they will appeal their sentences.
Four former FIFA executive committee members - Slim Aloulou of Tunisia, Amadou Diakite of Mali, Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga - were all suspended for between two and four years after they advised undercover reporters how much to pay FIFA voters in bribes.
In his interview Sunday, Blatter did not specify what investigative powers the anti-corruption committee would have or how it would work alongside the existing ethics panel.
Blatter said he expected the anti-corruption body to include up to nine officials, some selected from the worlds of politics, finance, business and culture.
While FIFA has completed its own investigations, it faces further problems pending the outcome of an International Olympic Committee corruption probe.
The IOC's ethics commission is studying evidence provided by Britain's state broadcaster, the BBC, after it broadcast allegations that FIFA officials - some with Olympic connections - took kickbacks from its former marketing partner in the 1990s.
The BBC alleged that secret payments were received by three long-standing members of FIFA's ruling committee, including African football president Issa Hayatou in 1995. Hayatou, from Cameroon, became an IOC member in 2001.
The program also alleged that payments were made to former FIFA president Joao Havelange. The 94-year-old Brazilian is the IOC's longest-serving member with 47 years in the movement.
An independent anti-corruption committee would improve FIFA's credibility, Blatter told Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung.
"I will take care of it personally, to ensure there is no corruption at FIFA," Blatter said.
He aims to present the project to FIFA's congress of 208 football nations in June, where he will stand for presidential re-election seeking a fourth four-year term in office.
"This committee will strengthen our credibility and give us a new image," said Blatter, who acknowledged last month that FIFA "can't go on like this" after the World Cup voting process damaged the governing body's reputation.
FIFA officials were accused of bribe-taking and vote-trading before the 2018 and 2022 World Cup elections last month. Russia and Qatar, respectively, were awarded the tournaments.
FIFA's ethics court investigated and barred two of the 24-member executive committee, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, from voting based on evidence provided from an undercover sting by British newspaper, The Sunday Times.
Adamu, from Nigeria, became the first FIFA official suspended for bribery, and is serving a three-year ban from all football duty.
Temarii, a FIFA vice president from Tahiti, was given a one-year ban for breaching rules on confidentiality and loyalty. Both men have said they will appeal their sentences.
Four former FIFA executive committee members - Slim Aloulou of Tunisia, Amadou Diakite of Mali, Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga - were all suspended for between two and four years after they advised undercover reporters how much to pay FIFA voters in bribes.
In his interview Sunday, Blatter did not specify what investigative powers the anti-corruption committee would have or how it would work alongside the existing ethics panel.
Blatter said he expected the anti-corruption body to include up to nine officials, some selected from the worlds of politics, finance, business and culture.
While FIFA has completed its own investigations, it faces further problems pending the outcome of an International Olympic Committee corruption probe.
The IOC's ethics commission is studying evidence provided by Britain's state broadcaster, the BBC, after it broadcast allegations that FIFA officials - some with Olympic connections - took kickbacks from its former marketing partner in the 1990s.
The BBC alleged that secret payments were received by three long-standing members of FIFA's ruling committee, including African football president Issa Hayatou in 1995. Hayatou, from Cameroon, became an IOC member in 2001.
The program also alleged that payments were made to former FIFA president Joao Havelange. The 94-year-old Brazilian is the IOC's longest-serving member with 47 years in the movement.
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