Does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Apply to FIFA?

From The Least Thing –

“Over the past decade the US government has increasing used a 1977 law to go after corrupt international business practices that touch on US shores in some way. The provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) are far-reaching and consequential.

But does the act apply to FIFA? Here a few expert perspectives..”

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How Many Ways Can You Hide A Bribe? The Best of the FIFA Indictment

From Screamer –


‘“There are some people here who think they are more pious than thou. If you’re pious, open a church, friends. Our business is our business.”

That’s what federal investigators claim Jack Warner said after learning that a representative of a Caribbean Football Union member association had contacted CONCACAF offices in New York about some payments being made in envelopes. Warner, who held various international soccer titles including FIFA vice-president, didn’t sound amused at the loose lips. Now he’s one of 14 men indicted on a slew of federal charges ranging from racketeering to wire fraud to money laundering. With a day of press buzz stripped away, none of the accusations is truly surprising, instead serving as a fancy official verification of what soccer fans have suspected all along—each vote and contract is a bundle of bribes and kickbacks that makes a bunch of old rich men even richer.’

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Britain’s two biggest High Street banks dragged into the FIFA bribery and corruption scandal

From Mail Online -
Two of Britain’s biggest High Street banks have been dragged into the bribery and corruption scandal engulfing football’s world governing body.

Barclays and HSBC have been named in legal papers filed by the US Department of Justice after millions of dollars in suspect transactions linked to Fifa were allegedly moved through their accounts.

On Wednesday the Americans charged 14 officials following a four-year FBI probe into bribes to obtain lucrative marketing rights to football tournaments.

The corruption allegations were set out in a 160-page dossier. The documents also name London-based Standard Chartered Bank, which focuses largely on developing countries.

All three British-based banks are said to have handled suspicious transactions linked either to FIFA or its officials and connected companies.”

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