171 million euros withdrawn from the accounts of the people involved in the Vivagate scandal

The United States Department of Justice awarded the International Football Association Foundation (FIFA) compensation worth € 171 million for violations committed by former manager who occupied the highest positions in the world of football, the International Game Federation announced Tuesday.

These compensations come mainly after the famous corruption scandal “Vivagate”, which led the Swiss authorities to arrest seven officials of the International Federation on 27 May 2015. in a luxury hotel in the city of Zurich, in a series of scandals that have shaken the highest international football bodies and led to the overthrow of great heads, in particularly the Swiss Joseph Sepp Blatter, who has held the presidency of “FIFA” since 1998.

“This money was withdrawn from the bank accounts of the officials involved and prosecuted on bribery charges,” FIFA said in its statement, noting that tale this amount would be used to finance “football projects that have a positive impact on a global scale”.

For his part, the president of the Swiss International Federation, Gianni Infantino, praised the decision in a statement, stating: “I am pleased to see that the money illegally stolen from football is returning to him today to use it wisely, as it always should have been.”

This decision comes after a storm of corruption that has turned the world of football upside down following the discovery of the system of extortion and “extortion” organized by football officials in South and Central America, in change in the granting of television broadcasting rights to football competitions, including the American Copa Competition.

The decisions issued by the US judicial authorities in the context of the “Vivagate” scandal led to the conviction of the president of the South American Football Association (CONMEBOL) and the former vice president of “FIFA”, the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, to nine years in prison , in addition to four years in prison, the former administrator of the Federation, the Brazilian Jose Maria Marin.

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