Update: 12:40PM – A newspaper claims it has a 2007 email that shows FIFA President Sepp Blatter and then-South African President Thabo Mbeki held “discussions” over a $US10 million ($A13 million) payment to allegedly corrupt executives.
South Africa’s Sunday Times reports that the email from FIFA secretary
general Jerome Valcke to the South African government asks when the $US10
million will be transferred.
The newspaper says that in the email, which it has not published, Valcke writes
that the $US10 million is “based on discussions between FIFA and the South
African government, and also between our President (Blatter) and President
Thabo Mbeki”.
American investigators allege that the $US10 million payment to world
football’s governing body was in return for three senior FIFA executives voting
for South Africa to host the 2010 World
Cup.
