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| Fifa crisis: Ex-official Chuck Blazer details bribe-taking | Fifa crisis: Ex-official Chuck Blazer details bribe-taking |
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| The guilty pleas of former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer have been detailed with the release of papers from a 2013 hearing in New York. | |
| He says that he and others on Fifa's executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host. | He says that he and others on Fifa's executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host. |
| Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over the 1998 event. | Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over the 1998 event. |
| The US has launched a wide-ranging criminal case that engulfed Fifa and led President Sepp Blatter to resign. | The US has launched a wide-ranging criminal case that engulfed Fifa and led President Sepp Blatter to resign. |
| The US case last week indicted 14 people on charges of racketeering and money laundering. Four others had already been charged, including Mr Blazer. | |
| The US justice department alleges they accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£97m) over a 24-year period. | |
| Seven of the 14 were top Fifa officials who were arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, as they awaited the Fifa congress. Two were vice-presidents. | |
| The details of Mr Blazer's guilty pleas came as prosecutors unsealed the transcript of the 2013 hearing in the Eastern New York District Court. | |
| Mr Blazer was the second highest official in Fifa's North and Central American and Caribbean region (Concacaf) from 1990 to 2011 and also served on Fifa's executive committee between 1997 and 2013. | |
| Mr Blazer says: "Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the Fifa executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup." | |
| He adds: "I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups (the regional championship for national teams)." | |
| Federal agents tracking alleged tax evasion detained Mr Blazer and he agreed to co-operate in the US investigations. | |
| He is said to have agreed to record his colleagues using a microphone hidden in a keychain. |