There was nothing untoward with SA's hosting of the World Cup, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe has said.
|||Cape Town - There was nothing untoward with South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup.
This is according to Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, who told journalists on Thursday morning that a “reputed audit firm Ernst & Young” audited the 2010 World Cup when it ended and gave South Africa a clean audit.
On Wednesday South Africa’s boast of hosting the best ever World Cup soccer was tarnished by claims that a $10 million bribe was paid to secure it.
US prosecutors issued an indictment on Wednesday accusing nine Fifa officials and five sports media and promotions executives of bribes involving more than $150 million over 24 years. The US investigation said South African officials paid $10 million in bribes to host the 2010 tournament. Some bribes were handed over in a briefcase stuffed with $10 000 bundles of cash.
Speaking in Cape Town during the post-Cabinet briefing on Thursday morning, Radebe said: “As far as we're concerned, we got a clean audit, never any suggestion anything untoward happened in SA.”
Radebe was a member of the local organising comimitee.
He said while Fifa arrests were not discussed at Cabinet, “as a country we will ensure we are collaborating (with the investigation”.
Earlier on Thursday the SA Football Association dismissed the allegations as “baseless”.
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