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Chronology of the FIFA scandal
The extraordinary FIFA Congress intended the crisis-ridden football Federation back in calmer waters – a chronological review of the corruption affair since 2010.
2. December 2010: The FIFA awards the world Cup 2018 in Russia and the finals in 2022 to Qatar. Shortly before the vote, six members of the Executive Committee will be locked. The British newspaper “Sunday Times” had uncovered that your voices will be offered for sale.
1. June 2011: Joseph Blatter is the fourth Time the FIFA President will be elected and brings a reform agenda on the way. A few weeks before the re-election manages the Association of an investigation due to alleged illegal payments in the way.
23. June 2011: Mohamed bin Hammam, former President of the Asian Kontinentalverbandes (AFC) and member of the FIFA Executive Committee, is due to proven corruption locked for life.
30. April 2013: The local ethics Committee confirmed that Ex-FIFA Boss Joao Havelange and former Executive Committee members Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolas Leoz of illegal payments, the sports Marketing company ISL.
17. December 2014: The former US Federal Prosecutor Michael Garcia resigns as chief investigator of the FIFA back, because he is his investigation into the allegations of corruption during the world Cup Awards 2018 and 2022 FIFA for not adequately taken into account keeps. Garcia criticized the “lack of leadership in the FIFA on these issues”.
27. May 2015: Shortly before the beginning of the FIFA Congress
in Zurich, the Swiss police seven high-ranking officials. Among them are the two FIFA Vice-presidents Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands), and Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay). Moreover, Jose Maria Marin, Costas Takkas, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha and Rafael Esquivel arrested. The seven arrested in the United States to be shipped, money-laundering, the acceptance of bribes and corruption at the FIFA world Cup Awards and TV-Rights of accused.
29. May 2015: Blatter is in his fifth term as FIFA President
chosen.
2. June 2015: Blatter makes his office for new elections in an extraordinary Congress
available. “I have been hard for changes and reforms fought,” says Blatter. “But I can’t do this alone.” The Congress is for the 26. February set.
Blatter leaves after his resignation press conference the Podium
3. June 2015: The long-standing Executive Committee member Chuck Blazer says he and several colleagues to accept bribes in the awarding of the 2010 football world Cup in South Africa would accept.
9. July 2015: The FIFA ethics Committee blocks Blazer for a lifetime.
17. September 2015: Blatters right Hand, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, and of all the tasks
relieved. He should from the sale of tickets for world Cup finals personally have benefited from.
25. September 2015: The Swiss judicial authorities to open an investigation against Blatter. It is, among other things, “a treuwidrige payment of two million Swiss francs in February 2011 to the expense of FIFA,” UEFA President Michel Platini accused. Platini, who yet at this time as heir to the throne Blatters true, insists it was a legal payment traded, and he had done nothing wrong.
29. September 2015: The ethics Committee of the world Federation of locks Ex-FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner for corruption last a lifetime.
2. October 2015: Four of the five FIFA Topsponsoren (only Adidas is not going) challenge Blatter, with immediate effect, to withdraw. The Swiss beckons and keeps to his Plan, that his successor in February 2016 will be chosen.
8. October 2015: Blatter, Platini and Valcke will be approved by the ethics Committee provisionally for 90 days
suspended. The former South Korean FIFA Vice President Chung Mong-Joon is at the same time for six years locked. Blatter should be against the code of ethics to have violated. FIFA Vice-President Issa hayatou Deputy from Cameroon takes interimsweise Blatters duties.
21. October 2015: The ethics Commission is filing charges against Franz Beckenbauer due to a lack of cooperation with the Committee.
24. November 2015: The Ethics Committee
requested a permanent ban for Platini. A corresponding request is confirmed the lawyer of the French.
3. December 2015: In the run-up to the meeting of the Executive Committee in Zurich
arrested the police at the request of the US justice two other high-ranking officials: Juan Angel Napout, from Paraguay, President of the South American Kontinentalverbandes CONMEBOL and CONCACAF boss, Alfredo Hawit, from Honduras. Again, it goes to organized crime, money laundering and fraud. U.S. justice Loretta Lynch creates a list of 16 Fußballfuntionären from Central and South America, against the because of suspicion of corruption is determined.
4. December 2015: Three more Suspects on the U.S. list, are arrested: two in their home countries, a holiday in Florida on a cruise ship.
8. December 2015: Platinis appeal against his Supendierung by the FIFA ethics Committee is of the Supreme arbitration for sport, the CAS,
dismissed. Reason: Platini will establish “no irreparable harm”.
21. December 2015: The FIFA ethics Committee looks to be a misconduct on the part of Blatter and Platini as a proven and
locks both Top officials for eight years. The background is a dubious payment of 1.8 million euros, Blatters of Platini. In addition, both receive fines. Platini must be so, his candidature for the office of FIFA President to tick off.
Drawn, not only because of the patch: Blatter after the announcement of the lock against him
7. January 2016: Platini withdraws its application to the FIFA Chefposten officially back.
12. February 2016: The FIFA ethics Committee
locks Ex-Secretary General Valcke for twelve years. The accusation: Amtsmitssbrauch and destruction of evidence.
24. February 2016: The FIFA appeal Committee rejects the objections Blatters and Platinis against their convictions,
reduced, however, the Block of eight to six years.
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