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World football governing body FIFA has revealed that the son of Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona, Humberto, must present a report explaining his actions following a scandal over the resale of tickets at the 2014 World Cup.
FIFA claims it has tracked 141 tickets handed over by police authorities, in the middle of a touting scandal at the tournament which has led to several arrests. Some of those were sold by agencies which had bought blocks of tickets from Match Hospitality, an official FIFA distributor.
The governing body clarified in a statement released Sunday that Grondona's tickets were not among those confiscated san diego ca beach hotel suite economy by police and explained that no official or worker was under suspicion nor would be questioned over the scandal.
Rio police Inspector Fabio Barucke had anticipated that the person under investigation was staying at Rio s Copacabana Palace Hotel, where some of FIFA s highly-ranked officials and MATCH Hospitality which holds the rights to the World Cup hospitality san diego ca beach hotel suite economy program are based.
Barucke confirmed 11 people were arrested earlier in the week, including Mohamadou Lamine Fofana, an Algerian man previously thought san diego ca beach hotel suite economy to be the ringleader of the scalping operation. Barucke said more arrests are possible.
Barucke described Fofana, who had free access to FIFA-restricted areas including the hotel, as a middleman and suggested the ticket source was someone higher up the chain. He did not give details of the person under investigation.
He (Lamine Fofana) has tickets from hospitality, from MATCH, and he was close friends with someone from FIFA who was in the middle of that negotiation who was helping out with that negotiation, he said. We were able to identify there is the participation of someone from FIFA.
Barucke said Fofana had a relationship with football players, and was living in an apartment in Rio rented for a month from former Brazilian national team player Junior Biano. Barucke said there was no evidence Biano was involved in wrongdoing.
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In 2011, regarding the 2018 and 2022 hosting rights, Grondona said he had voted for Qatar. He went on to say that if the UK gave the Falklands to argieland, he would vote for England. Isn t that blackmail? Like argie, like father, like son. Crooked as they come!
Come on guy s lets be honest here (LOL bad word to use considering the story) lets remember that we are talking about FIFA LOL this is not the 1st time tickets have been sold like this and dont forget the same thing apparently happened during the Olympics. People regardless of were they are from see a chance at some easy money.
I sincerely believe in Whelan s and Fofana s guilt in this scandal, but I would bet that they all go home after the Cup and no one (worthy of note) will be indicted.....FIFA will pay whatever it has to, in order to hush this up, or to shift the blame elsewhere.