Ex-Investigator: FIFA Can No Longer Protect Itself FIFA Discloses Ireland
SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 Ex-investigator: FIFA can no longer protect itself MELBOURNE: The US-led investigations into cor- “Somewhere above that there is a veneer of not because of his work there or the unfolding was persuaded there was much to be done from ruption at FIFA have pierced the veil of secrecy people who make decisions who have the ability scandal. However, he said he nearly quit only this report and that investigations would be open,” that protected soccer’s top power-brokers and to intercept or be involved in some way in the vast months after starting work in earnest last October, said Davidson, who credited Cornel Borbely, chair- more dominoes can be expected to fall, said a for- money that goes around.” following the departure of FIFA’s independent man of the ethics committee’s investigatory cham- mer investigator on the governing body’s ethics “Those people had been protected by that lay- investigator Michael Garcia. ber, for talking him round. committee. er of, if you like, working together. Now that layer, The former US attorney submitted a report of Nicholas Davidson, a prominent lawyer and that veneer, has been pierced. And so they will his 18-month investigation into the controversial FRUSTRATION honorary president of New Zealand’s football asso- talk. People talk. As Prince William said, this is the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Davidson declined to comment on the scope of ciation, resigned from his role on FIFA’s investiga- ‘Salt Lake City moment’. And I think we’ve just Cups, which are now the subject of a probe by his work, only to say it was separate from the alle- tory chamber before Swiss police arrested seven scratched it.” Swiss authorities.
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