The US Department of Justice said on Thursday it was awarding Fifa and the American soccer confederations an additional $92 million in compensation, on top of the $201 million announced in August, for wrongdoing by former football leaders. world football.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Brooklyn, New York, announced in a press release the "
additional distribution of approximately $92 million to compensate for losses suffered by Fifa, the world football organization, Concacaf (Confederation of North American North, Central America and the Caribbean), the Conmebol (South American football confederation) and various national football federations, referred to as victims
".
This measure "
marks our commitment to return to the victims of the money obtained by corruption and fraud (...) which will be reused in the interest of the sport
", praised the Brooklyn prosecutor Breon Peace, recalling that in the shutter American "Fifagate" more than 50 natural and legal persons from 20 countries had been prosecuted.
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The affair broke out in May 2015 with the spectacular arrest of seven world football leaders in Zurich and which led a few months later to the departure of Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa since 1998, who was succeeded by Gianni Infantino.
This concerned a system of bribes and "racketeering" organized by football officials in South America and Central America, in exchange for the awarding of TV broadcasting rights for competitions, including the Copa America.
Instructed in the United States, the "Fifagate" notably resulted in the sentencing to nine years in prison of the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, former president of Conmebol, and to four years in prison of the Brazilian José Maria Marin, former leader of the federation. Brazilian.
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