- LONDON: FIFA’s investigators have gathered further evidence of bribery by suspended executive Mohamed bin Hammam during his campaign to become president of world football’s governing body, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday.
- The corruption report — compileative at the Trinidad meeting attended by bin Hammam.
CFU officials Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester have also been accused of being involved in the attempt to bribe voters and are currently suspended.
Details of Freeh’s report emerged after FIFA announced Wednesday that its ethics panel, chaired by Namibian judge Petrus Damaseb, will hear all three cases on July 22 and begin its deliberations the next day.
“The three officials have received the report on the investigations conducted by the ethics committee since May 29 and have been invited to present their position in writing prior to the meeting,” FIFA said in a statement.
“The parties, as well as the ethics committee, also have the opportunity to call on potential witnesses.
FIFA has not released details of Freeh’s report or the full findings of the May 29 meeting of the ethics committee, which were obtained by The AP last month.
That initial panel found “comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming evidence” that Warner arranged the meeting specifically to enable corruption. It was “impossible” to think Warner was unaware of the payments and their intention to influence how CFU members voted.
Bin Hammam allegedly offered cash “at least indirectly and under the pledge of secrecy” intended to influence them to back him against Blatter, the report said.
The scandal emerged one week before the FIFA election on June 1, and bin Hammam, Warner and the CFU staffers were then provisionally suspended by the ethics panel pending a full inquiry. All have denied wrongdoing.
Bin Hammam withdrew his candidacy three days before the poll, leaving Blatter clear to be elected unopposed at the FIFA congress for a fourth four-year term as the most powerful man in world football.



