DA to demand update on World Cup corruption charges against Jordaan‚ Oliphant

30 June 2016 - 12:22 By TMG Digital

Danny Jordaan’s denial of ever doing any “corrupt thing in my life” in an interview on Wednesday has prompted the Democratic Alliance (DA) to seek an “urgent update” on the charges it had laid against him.The party’s Solly Malatsi said he will write to the Hawks to find out what has come of the corruption complaint it opened in September last year “against Jordaan and then president of the South African Football Association (Safa)‚ Molefe Oliphant”.Malatsi said this “comes after an interview in which Jordaan persisted in the narrative that he had no hand in the $10-million Fifa corruption scandal that rocked the sporting community last year”.It was widely reported that the “$10-million bribe was paid to the North‚ Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in return for votes to host the 2010 World Cup”.Jordaan‚ who is now the African National Congress mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay‚ was at the time the head of the local organising committee and spearheaded the bid.Should “details of the Hawks investigation” not be “forthcoming‚ the DA will not hesitate to approach the National Prosecuting Authority‚ requesting a record of decision not to prosecute Jordaan and Oliphant on the existing evidence already uncovered by our American counterparts”.“We know that both Jordaan and Oliphant are implicated in the decision to transfer the money for Concacaf’s Diaspora Legacy Programme in two letters‚” Malatsi said.Jordaan on Wednesday claimed to have a letter from Fifa saying it was the best “World Cup ever”.Malatsi‚ too‚ had praise for the tournament‚ saying it “will remain one of South Africa’s shining achievements‚ but it is vitally important to hold those allegedly guilty of corruption to account so that a clear message is sent to those who seek to tarnish South Africa though corrupt activities - that they will not be allowed to get away with it”. ..

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