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Fifa Crisis: Ex-official Chuck Blazer Details Bribe-Taking

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.

Fifa  Ex-official Chuck Blazer
Fifa Ex-official Chuck Blaze

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.

The US has launched a wide-ranging criminal case that engulfed Fifa and led President Sepp Blatter to resign.

The US case indicted 14 people on charges of racketeering and money laundering.

The US justice department alleges they accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£97m) over a 24-year period.

Seven of the 14 were top Fifa officials who were arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, as they awaited the Fifa congress. Two were vice-presidents.

The details of Mr Blazer’s guilty pleas came as prosecutors unsealed the transcript of the 2013 hearing in the Eastern New York District Court. (BBC)

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