Ex- FIFA exec admits taking bribes for SA 2010

A US District Court in New York has been told that FIFA officials collected bribes to determine which country would host the 1998 and 2010 World cup competitions.
According to a partial release of his testimony, former executive committee member of FIFA, Chuck Blazer told a US judge in 2013 that, “I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup.”
US prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed the transcript of the 2013 hearing in US District Court in New York during which Chuck Blazer agreed to plead guilty for racketeering and other charges.
The former No 2 official of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean also said he arranged bribes around 1992 in the vote for which country would host the 1998 World Cup.
Blazer, a US citizen, secretly pleaded guilty to 10 criminal counts in federal court in New York as part of an agreement with US prosecutors, according to the transcript of the hearing.

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