Football: Fresh evidence in bin Hammam case

LONDON: A Fifa-commissioned investigation into claims that Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam used bribes in his bid for the organisation’s top job has found fresh evidence. A further five associations have now told former FBI director Louis Freeh, who is heading the investigation, that they were offered $40,000 in brown paper envelopes in return for their votes in the presidential election. Bin Hammam and then vice-president Jack Warner were suspended on May 29 when a leaked report revealed that four Caribbean Football Union associations had been offered money or had seen the offence occurring during a meeting on May 10 and 11.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2011.