Top official quits AFC amid probe
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ASIAN Football Confederation general secretary Alex Soosay has quit amid a probe into allegations that he ordered a cover-up during an audit of the organization in 2012.
The AFC issued a statement yesterday to announce the resignation, and to thank Soosay for his 20-year career at the regional governing body. The statement did not give any reasons, and Soosay did not comment.
The Malay Mail reported this year that it obtained a video from July 2012 which showed AFC financial director Bryan Kuan Wee Hong telling a FIFA investigator that Soosay had asked for any incriminating evidence potentially connecting him to wrongdoing under disgraced former president Mohamed bin Hamman to be concealed.
In a statement last month announcing that Soosay was suspended, the AFC said: “A video statement conducted as part of a FIFA investigation was passed to media recently, and the AFC has now been able to verify its authenticity.”
Soosay, who became general secretary in 2009, said last month there was nothing in the allegations and claimed it was a smear attempt.
The AFC said deputy general secretary Windsor John will be in charge of the secretariat until a replacement.
Bin Hammam resigned in December 2012 while under investigation for conflicts of interest and financial mismanagement at the AFC, and was immediately expelled from football by FIFA.
In 2012, Pricewaterhouse Coopers conducted an internal audit of the AFC under Bin Hammam and questioned the awarding of TV rights and millions of dollars of payments into AFC accounts “purportedly for the personal use of its president”.
The Asian audit case finished Bin Hammam’s career in football after he overturned a FIFA ban for alleged bribery during his campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter as president in 2011.
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