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| Sepp Blatter |
AFP - FIFA president Joseph Blatter said Friday that his body would open in December "folder ISL" alleged corruption to the BBC for the "transmit" to "external organization" in order to obtain "the consequences ". The BBC said in a release about last year that International Sports and Leisure (ISL), a marketing company which had obtained exclusive rights for several World Cups, before its liquidation in 2001, had paid "pots of wine" to certain members of FIFA.
Issa Hayatou, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is one of three members of the executive committee of FIFA accused in this BBC documentary to have received money through corruption . Hayatou had dismissed the charges in late November on France 24, arguing that the CAF had received funding from ISL in "a spirit of solidarity" to mark the 40th anniversary of the proceedings. "We do not deny that ISL gave the CAF (...) 25,000 Swiss francs. No one disputes that," he said about this "wave of solidarity". "We do not see how we are affected by what the BBC said, had said Hayatou. This is something that dates back 16 years. Why did not the BBC revealed that in 16 years if it had proof that it was the corruption? ".
Hayatou had also assured the end of November not be opposed to the initiation of an investigation requested by the NGO Transparency International. "If they want to investigate that can stop them? It has nothing to hide, if they want to investigate as they come. Doors open," he said.
