Gianni Infantino faced investigation by Fifa ethics committee for alleged malpractice (Fußball allgemein)

Scrutinizer, Sonntag, 18.06.2017, 19:37 (vor 2501 Tagen) @ Redaktion schwatzgelb.de

Nicht überraschend, aber es bleibt dabei: Mit Infantino ist die FIFA ebenso moralisch abgebrannt wie unter Blatter.

The Guardian has learned that the Swiss prosecutor Cornel Borbely, who was chairman of the ethics committee’s “investigatory chamber”, had begun examining complaints that Infantino and the Fifa general secretary, Fatma Samoura, improperly sought to influence the election in March of their favoured candidate for president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad .

The allegations are understood to include claims from senior figures in African football that Infantino and Samoura promised FA presidents, in a series of private meetings, that they could accelerate the payment of Fifa development money to their football associations if the presidents voted for Ahmad.

Infantino is said to have manoeuvred for the ousting of the longstanding CAF president, Issa Hayatou, because Hayatou did not support him in the Fifa presidential election last year, instead endorsing the rival candidate, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.

Borbely is also understood to have been in the early stages of an investigation into a further possible ethics breach by Infantino.

Die Reaktion der FIFA auf Nachfrage des Guardian zu Infantino:

Responding to the revelation that Infantino himself was under two investigations at the time Borbely and Eckert were removed, Fifa said: “We will not comment on baseless speculations, which are unfortunately put forward only for ill-intended purposes.”

theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/18/gianni-infantino-fifa-president-ethics-committee-under-investigation-alleged-malpractice