2011年10月29日星期六

Jennings told a Senate committee

Jennings said Brazil should take responsibility for the preparations away from senior FIFA officials, including Ricardo Teixeira, head of Brazil's football confederation and the nation's front man for World Cup preparations. He says Teixeira may have amassed $9.5 million in bribes from now-defunct FIFA marketing firm ISL.
"It is in the best interests of your country to get these people out and appoint honest bureaucrats and clean people to run the World Cup," he said.
Jennings featured in an investigative report by BBC's Panorama programme that accused Teixeira and former FIFA president Joao Havelange of taking millions of dollars in bribes from ISL to retain the company as FIFA's sole official marketer.
He says Havelange, who is Brazilian, may have amassed $50 million or more in bribes through a facade company called Sicuretta.
Jennings also says he has evidence that it was Teixeira and Havelange who ended a Swiss legal investigation into the case by paying 2.5 million Swiss francs ($2.9 million) to charity and confessing in writing to taking bribes.
Teixeira, who is facing a Brazilian federal police investigation related to the case, has denied the allegations. The BBC said that Havelange did not respond to its request for a comment.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced a long-awaited anti-corruption plan last Friday that included a pledge to re-open the case into ISL's collapse.

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