theguardian | The new head of world football has been caught up in the sport’s
corruption scandal because of documents that have been revealed by the
Panama Papers leak.
Files seen by the Guardian will raise questions about the role Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, played in deals that were concluded when he was director of legal services at Uefa, European football’s governing body.
According to records, Uefa
concluded offshore deals with one of the indicted figures at the heart
of an alleged “World Cup of fraud” despite previously insisting it had
no dealings with any of them.
The emergence of the contracts from 2003 and 2006, which were
co-signed by Infantino, link Uefa for the first time to one of the
companies involved in the huge unfolding scandal that has brought down
former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
Uefa has denied any wrongdoing by any of its officials or any other marketing partner.
It said the contracts were all above board. Fifa has previously
insisted Infantino had no dealings with any of the officials currently
under investigation – or their companies. Infantino said he was
“dismayed” by the reports and “will not accept that my integrity is
being doubted”.
The disclosures are based on the leak of 11m documents from the files
of the offshore financial law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were obtained
by Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with the Guardian and other news organisations.
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