World Cup of fraud

28 May 2015 - 02:10

By Mark Gleeson ,Graeme Hosken and Shaun Smillie

After a day of arrests that tore into the heart of international soccer's highest governing body, the question now is who is the high-ranking South African bid committee official the FBI names only as co-conspirator #15. Its indictment states that the man or woman handed over a briefcase filled with US currency in $10000 stacks to a high-ranking Fifa official in a Paris hotel room.

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