Tag: FIFA

Blake willing to rethink CIFA review panel

Blake willing to rethink CIFA review panel

| 23/12/2015 | 13 Comments

(CNS): Following the Office of the Auditor General’s refusal to take part in the independent review of the Cayman Islands Football Association’s books and the sports minister’s insistence that the CIFA executive remains well away from the review panel, the CIFA president has said he was willing to rethink the situation. Bruce Blake, who formally took over the […]

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CIFA plans open review of ‘Goal’ project

CIFA plans open review of ‘Goal’ project

| 17/12/2015 | 21 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Football Association, which remains embroiled in the wider international football scandal, has announced plans to convene a panel to review donations that it received for Goal, a grassroots project funded by FIFA. CIFA has received almost US$2 million from the global association and questions have been asked about where the cash has gone.

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Webb embezzled cash meant for poorest kids

Webb embezzled cash meant for poorest kids

| 07/12/2015 | 74 Comments

(CNS): As the international FIFA corruption scandal rolls on, the latest indictment by the United States Department of Justice outlines how Jeffrey Webb, the suspended Cayman Islands Football Association president, took cash meant for disaster relief and grassroots football programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. Sports Minister Osbourne Bodden has again called for […]

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Webb pleads guilty, gives up $6.7M in FIFA probe

Webb pleads guilty, gives up $6.7M in FIFA probe

| 03/12/2015 | 128 Comments

(CNS): The former president of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA), Jeffrey Webb, has pleaded guilty to charges against him in the United States Department of Justice FIFA investigation. The local football hero is one of eight defendants who have admitted to various racketeering offences, revealed in the latest update from the US authorities. Webb has […]

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Webb’s CONCACAF replacement netted in FIFA probe

Webb’s CONCACAF replacement netted in FIFA probe

| 03/12/2015 | 32 Comments

(CNS): The acting president of the region’s football body has been arrested in a dawn raid in Zürich in the latest round of arrests in the growing FIFA scandal. CONCACAF’s acting president, Alfredo Hawit, who replaced Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb after his arrest in Switzerland in May, was netted on behalf of the FBI at a […]

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CIFA cash lands in Watson and Webb accounts, crown says

CIFA cash lands in Watson and Webb accounts, crown says

| 26/11/2015 | 0 Comments

(CNS): As the crown pressed on with its case against Canover Watson and Miriam Rodrigues Wednesday, the court heard how public funds found their way into banks accounts controlled by Watson and his long-term friend and business partner, Jeffrey Webb, as well as cash from the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA). As the prosecutor continued his […]

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FIFA boss admits backroom World Cup deal

FIFA boss admits backroom World Cup deal

| 29/10/2015 | 1 Comment

(CNS): The beleaguered president of world football’s governing body has admitted that backroom deals had been made among the FIFA executive over the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. In an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, Sepp Blatter revealed that football bosses had agreed before the vote to give the 2018 and 2022 games […]

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Swiss grant request for Takkas’ extradition

Swiss grant request for Takkas’ extradition

| 09/10/2015 | 12 Comments

(CNS): Swiss authorities have approved the US extradition request for Costas Takkas, who was Jeffrey Webb’s assistant when he was CONCACAF president. Takkas, who was once a resident of the Cayman Islands and a general secretary with the Cayman Islands Football Association, was working for Webb as an attache in Miami after the local football […]

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FIFA plans to suspend beleaguered president

FIFA plans to suspend beleaguered president

| 07/10/2015 | 16 Comments

(CNS): In the face of the mounting scandals, executives at the world’s football governing body, FIFA, have finally indicated an intention to suspend their president, Sepp Blatter, but only on temporary suspension for three months. Officials from FIFA’s Ethics Committee recommended putting him on the short term suspension in connection with allegations over a 2005 TV […]

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Swiss FIFA probe nets Blatter as scandal widens

Swiss FIFA probe nets Blatter as scandal widens

| 25/09/2015 | 31 Comments

(CNS): Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, is now under criminal investigation in Switzerland. The football boss was questioned by police in Zürich Friday in connection with a deal with the Caribbean Football Union when Jack Warner was president and a payment to Michel Platini, President of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The Swiss […]

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Swiss to extradite Esquivel, Trinidad agrees to give up Warner

Swiss to extradite Esquivel, Trinidad agrees to give up Warner

| 23/09/2015 | 9 Comments

(CNS): Jack Warner and Rafael Esquivel are both now facing extradition to the United States in the massive FiFA bribery and corruption investigation after both the Trinidad and Swiss authorities agreed to the American request. Warner (72), who was Jeffrey Webb’s predecessor as CONCACAF president, is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the […]

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