Ousted official cites several FIFA cases
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SEVERAL hundred cases of wrongdoing in soccer were under investigation when FIFA ousted its ethics leadership, the outgoing prosecutor has said.
Swiss prosecutor Cornel Borbely said yesterday that the process of bringing corrupt officials to justice will now stall as new ethics officials have to learn how to navigate the global FIFA structures.
“We investigated several hundred cases and several hundred are still pending and ongoing at this moment,” Borbely said in Bahrain where FIFA is holding its annual congress. “Imagine where FIFA would be today without an ethics committee.”
Borbely failed along with German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert to be nominated for re-election by the FIFA Council headed by President Gianni Infantino. Borbely said his “removal was unnecessary and because of that political” and called it a “setback for the fight against corruption”.
Eckert and Borbely have been with the ethics court since a revamp with greater independence in 2012, and have banned multiple officials during the biggest corruption crisis in FIFA’s history, including disgraced leader Sepp Blatter.
FIFA said that its ruling council proposed Greek judge Vassilios Skouris and Colombian lawyer Maria Claudia Rojas for approval by the congress of all soccer nations. Borbely said there’s “no period of transition” to the new ethics leadership for the ongoing cases.
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