There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.”
In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into hot waters of financial scandals.
He was investigated for a controversial 2-million Swiss franc payment made to then UEFA president Michel Platini.
Both of them were tried and however, cleared of fraud charges by a Swiss federal court.
The probe was part of broader racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering investigations into FIFA officials, which led to Blatter’s resignation in 2015 after he...
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Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion
Source: Vanguard News
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