It’s the beginning of the end of a long-running bribery story: on July 11, 2012, court documents were released which, literally, name names in a bribery scandal that has haunted the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (“FIFA”) since 2001. A non-prosecution agreement entered into in 2010 between the Canton of Zug, Switzerland, FIFA and two of its senior executives has now been made public. The long-awaited for punchline is that Joao Havelange, the former and long-time FIFA president, and his former son-in-law, Ricardo Teixeira, the former and long-time head of the Brazilian Football Confederation, received More…![]()
