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Sun is shining for Bernie, but what about the rest of sports?
Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire owner of Formula One car racing, is on trial for bribery in a Munich court this week. The charges he denies relate to a €33m (£27.2m) Courtesy of the Telegraph...
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Have international sanctions affected Iran’s World Cup?
Sanctions and embargoes aren’t just buzzwords that affect Barcelona’s player transfers and Paris St Germain’s infringements on the Financial Fair Play rules. Laura Jones looks at whether Iran has...
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Qatar Football: Hammam took suitcase full of bribe $$ to Trinidad
(Trinidad Express) Wealthy Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam and his nine-member delegation quite literally walked straight through Immigration and Customs to the VIP lounge of Piarco International Airport...
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FATF praises S Korea; FSRB lauds Qatar for AML while corruption could lose it...
The Financial Action Task Force’s bi-annual plenary meeting is happening in Paris this week and South Korea’s anti-money laundering (AML) efforts have already come in for praise. The Financial...
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How corruption damages a society and how corporates can make a difference
Anti-corruption investigators in the Cayman Islands have arrested a FIFA executive in connection with bribery allegations. Canover Watson, a member of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee, was...
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New documentary sheds light on FIFA corruption allegations
Yet another story connecting football with financial crime? We are in danger of a trend appearing here… Allegations of corruption surround not only FIFA’s bid for the Qatar World Cup but also the 2018...
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DOJ indictment of FIFA – a quick reminder of the details
So, this morning the FIFA members are voting on who will be the next president. In the Blue Corner weighing in at four terms on the throne at football’s governing body, 79 year old Joseph “Sepp”...
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Football associations don’t kill people….
…..massive construction projects do. More than 1,200 people killed in the building of Qatar’s World Cup stadia, the vast majority of them Nepalese. Qatar Airways are one of the few international...
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