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| Ex-South American soccer chief in FIFA scandal under house arrest | | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:53 AM | |
| | The former head of South America's soccer federation was under house arrest on Monday evening, a senior police official said, five days after he was accused by the United States of involvement in a corruption scandal that has rocked world soccer. Earlier in the day a judge ordered the detention of 86-year-old Nicolas Leoz, who had been receiving medical treatment in a private clinic he owned in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion. Leoz is among nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives hit with U.S. charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. |
| FIFA scandal deepens as Blatter aide linked to payments | | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:25 AM | |
|  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, is described in an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, as an unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" who in 2008 transferred the sum to another FIFA official, Jack Warner. Valcke is not named as a defendant and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
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| Former Brazil soccer boss probed for money laundering - source | | Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:16 AM | |
| | The former head of the Brazilian soccer federation, Ricardo Teixeira, is facing charges of money laundering and tax evasion, a police source said on Monday, as an international bribery scandal put the spotlight on Brazil's national sport. Teixeira's successor as president of the CBF federation, José Maria Marin, was arrested on Wednesday by Swiss police along with six other executives of world soccer body FIFA on indictments for corruption brought by U.S. authorities. |
| Ebola threat to Guinea Bissau rises as border zone heats up | | | By Makini Brice DAKAR (Reuters) - Violent protests against Ebola controls in a north Guinea town have prompted the Red Cross to withdraw workers, undermining efforts to stop the spread of Ebola into neighbouring Guinea Bissau. The Ebola epidemic was detected in Guinea over a year ago and has since killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. Now, a spike in new cases in Guinea's Boke border province combined with violent resistance to efforts to control it there are stoking concerns it could spread. |
| Top FIFA aide linked to money transfer key to indictment - source | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, is described in an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, as an unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" who in 2008 transferred the sum to another FIFA official, Jack Warner. Valcke is not named as a defendant and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
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| Libyan manager at ENI joint venture kidnapped - staff | | | A manager in Libya's Mellitah oil and natural gas consortium, owned by state oil firm NOC and Italy's ENI , has been kidnapped, employees said on Monday. Mellitah operates a complex in western Libya exporting oil and gas as well as the Wafa and El Feel oilfields. Staff read out statements denouncing the kidnapping of Yousef al-Shoumani, a member of the firm's administrative management team, on Libya's al-Nabaa television and in a video posted on a Facebook staff website. |
| Mexican president changes asset declaration in wake of report on land deal | |  By Simon Gardner MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Under pressure to detail his personal wealth, Mexico's president has made changes to his declaration of assets following a Reuters report that cast doubt on how he acquired one of his properties near Mexico City. President Enrique Pena Nieto released the annual update to his declaration of assets late on Sunday, days after a Reuters report showed he purchased a 1,000 square metre plot of land in the town of Valle de Bravo that he has declared as a donation from his late father.
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| Migrant boat still being held off Myanmar coast - government | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy on Monday, more than three days after the converted fishing vessel was intercepted off the country's coast. "The government is checking their identity, asking what they want to do and where they want to go," government spokesman Ye Htut told Reuters, without providing further details of the boat's location. "Usually, most of them want to go back to Bangladesh, so we will arrange according to their wishes." Government officials have been tight-lipped about the identities of 727 migrants on the overcrowded boat, found drifting and taking on water early Friday, as well as their eventual destination.
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| Top FIFA aide linked to money transfer key to indictment - NYT | |  (Reuters) - U.S. authorities believe FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to the bribery investigation of the world soccer body, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing unnamed law-enforcement officials. The newspaper said FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke is the unidentified "high-ranking FIFA official" who prosecutors say transferred the sum in 2008 to another FIFA official, Jack Warner. The newspaper said Vlacke's alleged involvement is sure to raise more questions about what Blatter, who was re-elected on Friday to a fifth term as head of FIFA, knew about the money transfer.
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| Former FIFA exec's son agreed to cooperate with U.S. in 2013 - records | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A son of former FIFA executive secretly agreed in 2013 to cooperate with U.S. authorities and admit to participating in a World Cup ticket-reselling scheme, according to a court transcript released on Monday. The transcript confirmed that Daryan Warner, like his brother Daryll, had agreed to assist U.S. authorities as part of separate plea deals. The transcript, ordered released by a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, contained Daryan Warner's guilty plea. |
| HSBC must face U.S. lawsuits over $34 billion mortgage debt losses | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc was on Monday ordered to face three U.S. lawsuits accusing it of breaching its duties as a trustee overseeing residential mortgage-backed securities that suffered more than $34 billion of losses in the global financial crisis. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan said the plaintiff investors, including funds from BlackRock Inc , Allianz SE's Pacific Investment Management Co and TIAA-CREF, could pursue claims accusing HSBC of breach of contract, and concealing known defects in mortgage loans backing 283 trusts. "Based on plaintiffs' detailed allegations, it is indeed plausible to infer that HSBC had actual knowledge of breaches in representations and warranties in the specific loans at issue," Scheindlin wrote in a 53-page decision.
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| Egypt says uncovers Brotherhood plot, day before Mursi sentencing | | | Egypt said on Monday it had thwarted a Muslim Brotherhood plot against the state, a day before a court is expected to give a final ruling on a death sentence recommendation against Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's former Islamist president. Mursi was removed by then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi nearly two years ago following mass protests against his rule. Last month an Egyptian court sought the death penalty for Mursi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jail break in 2011. |
| FIFA scandal prompts house arrest of ex-South American soccer chief | | | A Paraguayan judge on Monday ordered house arrest for the former president of South America's soccer federation, who is accused by the United States of involvement in a corruption scandal that has rocked world soccer. Nicolas Leoz is among nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives hit with U.S. graft charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. Leoz headed the regional CONMEBOL federation for 27 years, stepping down in 2013. |
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