Flights, luxury travel, black market deals at the expense of FIFA, to around ten million euros, the court of arbitration for sport CAS summed up the damage, the Ex-Secretary General Jerome Valcke has caused.
In a 76-page long verdict of the International court of arbitration for sport CAS has kept Details about the misconduct of the former FIFA General Secretary Jérôme Valcke. The Frenchman did not have co-organized a black-market Ticket Deal before the 2014 world Cup, but also the Extra cost of 9.95 million euros for private flights and luxury travel at the expense of the world football Association is causing. In addition, Valcke had helped his son by the insider knowledge to a contract with WM-respect in the amount of about 600,000 Euro.
The CAS had rejected in July an appeal Valckes against a FIFA-lock of ten years and a fine in the amount of 100,000 Swiss francs (88.700 Euro). The justification of the verdict was published, as usual, now, some time later.
The right Hand of Joseph Blatter
The President and the Secretary-General: Blatter (left) and Valcke
Valcke was FIFA President Joseph Blatter Secretary General. His vocation in 2007, came as a surprise, since he had caused a year earlier by a legally actionable sponsorship Deal that FIFA is a million damage. In the course of the various FIFA scandals, also brought Blatter to the case, was Valcke was in the summer of 2016 without notice by FIFA and the ethics of the chamber, locked released. The Swiss justice Ministry determined regardless of the verdict of the sports judge against Valcke.
Valcke had stated before the CAS-judges, among other things, as a reason for extremely high costs for private flights for himself, his family and a nanny to the world Cup qualifying draw in St. Petersburg in July 2015, Blatter had advised him to avoid the risk of arrest. A few weeks earlier, several FIFA officials in Zurich were taken in the course of the investigation, the U.S. Department of justice. The CAS court rejected this explanation as inadequate for the extra cost. Already in 2013, Valcke had been by internal FIFA-Write prompt, “whenever possible, cost-effective Alternatives”.
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