{"id":29392,"date":"2015-06-12T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=29392"},"modified":"2015-06-12T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:59:48","slug":"interpol-disbands-e20-million-anti-match-fixing-relationship-with-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/interpol-disbands-e20-million-anti-match-fixing-relationship-with-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpol Disbands \u20ac20 Million Anti-Match-Fixing Relationship With FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"FIFA,
FIFA President Sepp Blatter (right) and then Secretary General of Interpol, Ronald Noble, seal the deal. Interpol has now concluded that FIFA doesn\u2019t share the fundamental values of the law enforcement community.\u201d No shit! (Image: cnn.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/i>Interpol has frozen a \u20ac20 ($22.5 million) donation, paid to it by FIFA, to fund a joint anti-match-fixing program.<\/p>\n

The 10-year Integrity in Sport initiative was designed to stamp out fixed games orchestrated by criminal betting syndicates, but Interpol<\/a> said this week that the FIFA corruption scandal had made the relationship untenable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the current context surrounding FIFA, while Interpol is still committed to developing our Integrity in Sport program, I have decided to suspend the agreement,\u201d said Interpol Secretary General J\u00fcrgen Stock.\u00a0\u201cAll external partners, whether public or private, must share the fundamental values and principles of the organization, as well as those of the wider law enforcement community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The terms and conditions of the deal, signed in 2011, state that that FIFA must remain “compatible with the principles, aims and activities of Interpol,\u201d but, following the arrest of seven FIFA officials as the result of a massive FBI corruption probe, Interpol may be forgiven for feeling that the soccer governing body has not kept up its end of the bargain.<\/p>\n

Why Now?<\/b><\/h2>\n

It begs the question, though, why was Interpol, with its wide-reaching access to an expansive network of law enforcement agencies, not aware of FIFA corruption in 2011?<\/p>\n

The British press was crying foul as far back as 2006. This was the year that journalist Andrew Jennings published Foul! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals. <\/i>The name says it all.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also in 2006, Panorama<\/i>, a\u00a0BBC current affairs program, broadcast a documentary asserting that Sepp Blatter was being investigated by Swiss police for attempting to wallpaper over a FIFA bribery scandal.<\/p>\n

In it, Lord Triesman, the former chairman of the English Football Association, described FIFA as an organization that “behaves like a mafia family”,<\/p>\n

Swiss Humor<\/b><\/h2>\n

A follow-up Panorama documentary in 2010 accused Issa Hayatou, Vice President of FIFA, of taking bribes. He threatened to sue the BBC, but he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Interpol\u2019s willingness to bury its head in the sand may have been more about the fact that the \u20ac20 million FIFA<\/a> paid to the international law enforcement agency constituted more than a quarter of its annual budget.<\/p>\n

Finally, though, with FIFA exposed and indicted by the US, the only nation that dared to hold the organization to task, it was too much, or to embarrassing, for Interpol to stomach.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, the FIFA communications director Walter De Gregorio cracked a \u201cjoke\u201d about his employers on Swiss TV this week, and believe us, it\u2019s a zinger!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FIFA president, secretary general and communications director are all traveling in a car,\u201d grinned De Gregorio.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut who’s driving?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police,” he zinged.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards FIFA announced that De Gregorio had chosen to \u201crelinquish his office.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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