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37. Fifa crisis: Ex-official Chuck Blazer details bribe-taking

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 04:44 PM

Jun 2015

The guilty pleas of former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer have been detailed with the release of papers from a 2013 hearing in New York.

He says that he and others on Fifa's executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host.

Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over the 1998 event.
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Mr Blazer says: "Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the Fifa executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/32998735

2011 was after Russia and Qatar were given their World Cups: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2010/m=12/news=russia-and-qatar-awarded-2018-and-2022-fifa-world-cups-1344698.html

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