FIFA hopeful denies wrongdoing with payments
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FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon said yesterday that payments he made to Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 were “charitable donations” and any attempt to use them as part of a reported ethics investigation was “cynical and unethical”.
Responding to media reports that world soccer’s governing body was investigating the South Korean billionaire over the “disaster relief” funds, Chung said he had been donating to causes since the 1990s.
“Recent media reports allege that FIFA has started an investigation into FIFA Honorary Vice President Dr Chung Mong-Joon’s 2010 donations to disaster relief funds to Haiti and Pakistan,” he said the statement.
“If these reports are true, we condemn this as a cynical and unethical effort by FIFA to misrepresent even charitable donations for political manipulation.”
FIFA’s ethics committee declined to comment.
It is not the first time that Chung’s name has been raised in a potential ethics case.
Last November, he featured in FIFA’s Ethics report into bidding for the World Cup in 2018 and 2022, in which South Korea made a bid to host.
This looked into letters that Chung sent, in late 2010, to FIFA executive committee members about a proposal to establish a “Global Football Fund”.
“According to those letters, Korea intended to raise US$777 million from 2011 to build new football infrastructure and renovate facilities,” said the report. It said the fund was linked to South Korea’s 2022 bid.
The Ethics report concluded: “There are certain indications of potentially problematic conduct of specific individuals.”
The Investigatory Chamber declined to comment on whether any action had been taken.
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