(Reuters) – Former Costa Rican Football Federation President Eduardo Li on Friday pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court to corruption charges connected to the ongoing scandal around FIFA. Li entered his plea in the late afternoon and remains in custody, according to Li’s lawyer and a spokeswoman for U.S. prosecutors. The U.S. Department of […]
By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Switzerland extradited a former Costa Rican soccer boss to the United States on Friday and approved the handover of a former South American federation chief to Uruguay in the latest judicial steps in the corruption scandal that has engulfed the sport. Costa Rican Eduardo Li was sent to the […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Argentine Football Association presidential election was postponed until next year after it was blocked by a civil court judge on Thursday. The judge acted on an injunction presented by a supporter of interim president Luis Segura?s rival, entrepreneur and television producer and presenter Marcelo Tinelli, claiming AFA statutes required the […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter was “a very respected person”, adding that it was up to investigators to establish whether there actually were cases of corruption in the world soccer body. “Whether there are signs of corruption in FIFA, the investigation must show. As for […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Suspended European soccer chief Michel Platini will not attend Friday’s FIFA ethics committee hearing in protest at what he condemns as a political process designed to prevent him running to lead the world governing body, his lawyers said on Wednesday. Platini was provisionally suspended for 90 days on Oct. 8, alongside outgoing […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss authorities are reviewing 133 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to the decisions by soccer’s ruling body to let Russia and Qatar host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, the Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said on Monday. That was up from the 103 cases the OAG had […]
By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sports marketing company that was described in a sweeping indictment this month as retaining contracts because of the “support” of corrupt soccer officials has longstanding ties to the U.S. entertainment company 21st Century Fox, according to securities filings and other government documents. The description […]
