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| Exclusive - Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because some activity tied to the accounts allegedly took place in these countries, a senior Vatican source said. While most of the media focus of the Vatican's murky finances has for decades centred on its official bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), a department called the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), acted as its own financial powerhouse.
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| Candidate for FIFA presidency Sexwale warns against 'sponsor activism' | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major sponsors of world football went too far when they issued calls last month for the resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale and candidate to succeed Blatter, said on Tuesday. In September, Swiss authorities said they were opening a criminal investigation into Blatter, who has led FIFA since 1988. It was the latest blow to FIFA's reputation after U.S. prosecutors announced indictments in May accusing top football officials and marketing executives of multi-million dollar bribery schemes over 24 years.
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| Brazil's Marin extradited to U.S. in FIFA corruption probe | |  By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Brazilian football chief Jose Maria Marin was extradited from Switzerland to the United States on Tuesday, Swiss authorities said, to face charges stemming from an FBI investigation into corruption at the highest levels of the sport. Marin was handed over to two U.S. police officers in Zurich who accompanied him on a flight to New York, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police said. The 83-year-old is a former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, and headed Brazil's preparations to host the 2014 World Cup.
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| FIFA reform will be limited, says head of panel proposing changes | |  By Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged with reforming the structure and management of world soccer body FIFA says major changes to the organization's voting structure and imposing term limits on executive committee members will be difficult to achieve in the short term. Francois Carrard, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) director general, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that his committee supports a 12-year term limit for FIFA's president, but such limits on executive committee members may not be the best course of action. "There are situations in some countries where you have wise leaders who could be useful for more than eight or 12 years," Carrard said before speaking at an international conference on sport security in New York.
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| German soccer HQ raided over 2006 World Cup payment | | | By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police and tax investigators raided the headquarters of Germany's football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched the homes of officials to investigate suspected tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. The raids focused on 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) the DFB transferred to world soccer's governing body FIFA in 2005 - adding another layer to U.S. and Swiss investigations into allegations of corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. The Frankfurt state prosecutor last month launched a monitoring process - a step before a formal investigation - into the payment. |
| "New Turkey" to bear Erdogan's stamp as crackdown on dissent steps up | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's new cabinet will bear the firm stamp of President Tayyip Erdogan with a slew of loyal advisors set for ministerial posts, senior officials said on Tuesday, suggesting his grip will tighten as the AK Party returns to govern alone. The AKP's dramatic electoral comeback on Sunday, clawing back a majority lost only five months earlier, was a personal victory for Erdogan, whose ambition for stronger presidential powers rests on the party he founded controlling parliament. Authorities detained dozens of people, including senior police officers and bureaucrats, on Tuesday on suspicion of links to Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Erdogan accuses of plotting to overthrow him with bogus corruption accusations.
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| France's Sarkozy angered by link to cocaine smuggling probe | |  Former president Nicolas Sarkozy accused French magistrates on Tuesday of violating legal principles by tracking his phone usage in connection with their investigation of a transatlantic drug smuggling operation. The comments from Sarkozy, tipped to run again for president in 2017, added a bizarre political dimension to a probe that has dominated headlines since two French airline pilots convicted of cocaine smuggling in the Dominican Republic escaped to France in mysterious circumstances last week. In an interview in the newspaper Le Parisien, Sarkozy said his lawyers were demanding to know why the judiciary had examined his phone records when the only link was that he had flown with the airline at the centre of the probe.
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| Islamists stand to gain as ruling party split looms in Tunisia | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - After weeks of sharp disputes between its leaders, Tunisia's ruling party is on the verge of breaking up, which could allow Islamist rivals to usurp it as the biggest bloc in parliament. Tensions between two wings of Nidaa Tounes, whose name means Call of Tunis, spilled over into violence last week when a party meeting descended into open fighting with fists and sticks at a luxury hotel at the beach resort of Hammamet. A split within Nidaa Tounes could trigger political instability in the country that launched the first of the Arab Spring revolutions in 2011. |
| New Hillary Clinton ad for Iowa, NH, advocates gun control | |  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her first ad targeting gun control on Tuesday, a month after pledging to take on the powerful U.S. gun lobby. The 30-second spot uses footage from an Oct. 5 town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Clinton said she would pursue expanded background checks and take steps to hold manufacturers accountable for crimes committed with their weapons. "This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries.
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