A fresh letter has emerged implicating South Africa 2010 World Cup boss Danny Jordaan in the Fifa World Cup scandal.
|||A fresh letter has emerged implicating South Africa 2010 World Cup boss Danny Jordaan – now mayor of Port Elizabeth – and the country’s government in the $10 million payment that forms a central part of the FBI-led investigation into Fifa corruption launched last week.
The December 2007 letter, from Jordaan to Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke, supports the allegation that the South African government agreed to the payment which the US authorities allege was a bribe, disguised as a football legacy development grant, to Concacaf chief Jack Warner and his deputy Chuck Blazer.
The letter names Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Jabu Moleketi, respectively foreign affairs minister and deputy finance minister in president Thabo Mbeki’s government.
The payment was allegedly used to secure support on the Fifa executive committee for South Africa’s bid to host the 2010 World Cup.
The letter, published by the Mail & Guardian newspaper yesterday, is entitled: “$10m promised by the South African government for the diaspora legacy programmes.”
Jordaan then writes to Valcke: “The South African Government has undertaken to pay an amount equivalent to $10m towards the 2010 Fifa World Cup Diaspora Legacy Programme. The Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Jabu Moleketi, has recommended that this money be paid over to Fifa. I have subsequently had a discussion with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, who has said that the funds should rather be paid over to the 2010 Fifa World Cup Organising Committee, South Africa.”
It continues: “In view of this determination, I want to suggest that Fifa deducts this amount ($10m) from the LOC’s future operational budget and deals directly with the diaspora legacy support programme.”
Valcke denied signing off the payment when allegations first arose but a March 2008 letter released by the SA Football Association blew apart these claims. Independent on Saturday
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