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FIFA’s Jerome Valcke flew in private jets to ‘avoid arrest’: Legal documents

By Daily Sports on September 25, 2018

FIFA spent $11.7 million in less than three years on private jets, including luxury sightseeing trips for a top official, a newly published legal document shows.

Jerome Valcke, then the FIFA secretary general, was urged in a 2013 internal memo to find “more cost efficient alternatives whenever possible,” according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s verdict explaining why his appeal against a 10-year ban was dismissed.

Excessive use of private jets and ordering business-class travel for his son was a factor in Valcke being banned from football by the FIFA ethics committee after he was fired in 2016. His appeal was dismissed by sport’s highest court in July.

Valck’s interventions to help place a World Cup contract worth an initial $709,000 linked to his son’s business interests were also detailed.

The CAS verdict noted Valcke broke FIFA rules four times by flying unnecessarily by private jet or with more than one guest, and without repaying the extra cost.

The flights included a sightseeing trip within India to the Taj Mahal, a meeting with the Emir of Qatar in Doha, and taking his family and a children’s nanny to the World Cup qualifying draw in July 2015 in St. Petersburg.

•Adapted from an ESPNKwese.com report. Photo shows former FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke

Source Daily Sports

Posted September 25, 2018